For millennia, the Eye of the Sahara was hiding in plain sight. That's because this huge and mysterious geologic formation is hard to spot from ground level, walking around on Earth. It turns out ...

Guelb er Richat (aka the Richat Structure or the Eye of the Sahara) is eyepopping when seen from space. How is it to see it from the ground? You'll have to travel deep into Mauritania's desert to ...

The Eye Of The Sahara. The Richat Structure can be seen from space and might be 100 million-years-old. by Chau Tu, on June 3, 2014. A satellite image of the Richat Structure in Mauritania, acquired on ...

It’s not hard to see why people think the Sahara Desert’s most stunning geological phenomenon was a gift from outer space. The Richat Structure – more poetically known as the Eye of the ...

IF YOU ever find yourself in orbit, you may notice a giant eye staring back at you from Earth: the Eye of the Sahara. Located near Ouadane in Mauritania and also called the Richat structure, it ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center decided to kick a hornet’s nest July 16 when it shared an image of one of Earth’s most debated oddities. Known as the Richat Structure, the formation is a ...

Archaeology is a messy business. Digging holes—in the dirt, in the sand, and in the rain forest—is essential. Now there’s a new way to search, ... which is invisible to the naked eye.