While looking at Google Earth a while back I noticed some 3D appearing markings in the Taklimaken desert region of China, north of Tibet. This is one of the most desolate regions on Earth. it makes Mars look hospitable. In this area only a few small sections are photographed in high resolution. In one of the high res areas there are a large number of intersecting "lines" with a distinct 3D look. They appear to go over and under sand dunes, disappear underground,cast shadows, go over and under each other like spagetti, etc. Much like the tubes on Mars. some even show ripple patterns at the limit of resolution. Why is all the good stuff always at the limit of resolution?
The location of one set is here:longitude 83.53811158446031 latitude 39.29173079762738.
If you move around from there you will find a whole network of these crisscrossing a huge area.
If you follow them until you get to the Trans Teklimaken highway, you will see two things. they flatten out and go away at the hard soil near the road and the seem to be about the width of the road.
Now here's the point,they are obviously not 3D tubes.The Chinese are not criss crossing their desert with pipes 25 feet in diameter. They are flat markings of some sort. Yet they have the much the same overall look of the 3D tubes on Mars. The way they die out on the hard soil near the roads and their size in relation to the roads inclines me to think they are the tracks of very large earth movers or graders of the sort used to make highways and move large amounts of soil in highway and dam building projects etc.
Many of the possibly artificial mounds and apparent artifacts on Mars are truly gargantuan in scale. If they were created, they would have required a massive amount of material transport. Both the lower gravity of Mars and an advanced technology would have made very large machinery possible. Could these markings have been made by large earth, oops, mars movers? Are any of the 'tubes' near artifacts?
Have the tubes been reimaged over time to see if they have changed? The Taklimaken markings seem to show areas covered over by sand, yet the other areas adjacent show no wind erosion at all. I know that wheel tracks in deserts in the American southwest tend to endure for a long time before being eroded. But local areas show some change over a shorter time span.
Also, despite what I said earlier, maybe the Chinese are tubing the desert. Hmmmm. Why are only certain areas in hi-res? What might be going on there? Oil prospecting?
