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Looking into Darvaza Gas Crater - Darvaza, Turkmenistan

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Looking into Darvaza Gas Crater - Darvaza, Turkmenistan
© July 30 2007, Uncornered Market

The hell-like Darvaza Gas Crater blazes away in the middle of the Karakum desert, with nothing but stillness for miles and miles around. The crater is not a natural phenomenon, but a by-product of gas exploration in the 1950s. The crater collapsed and someone decided to burn the gas off by lighting it on fire. Today, it still burns...

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