Man using Google Earth makes bizarre discovery in Australian outback

A caver who was looking astatine Google Earth images of the Australian outback was stunned to spot grounds of a uncommon weather phenomenon.

Scientists investigated photos of what appeared to beryllium a ‘scar’ etched crossed the dusty scenery of the Nullarbor Plain successful confederate Australia, and discovered a almighty tornado caused it.

Tornadoes bash hap successful Australia – but lone betwixt 30-80 hap each year, compared to the good implicit 1,000 which hap elsewhere, similar successful the United States.

Matej Lipar, Adjunt Research Fellow astatine the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences astatine Curtin University explained that tornadoes person been reported connected each continent but for Antarctica.

Mr Lipar was alerted to the tornado scar and began investigating it to find erstwhile the tornado happened, to amended assistance alert communities successful lawsuit different forms successful the future.

With their research, they were capable to find retired the tornado happened betwixt November 16 and 18 successful 2022.

The monolithic ‘scar’ stretches for 11 kilometers and reached 250 metres wide – astir surprisingly, it bore signs of a precise beardown tornado, with winds supra 200km/hour.

Mr Lipar explained successful the Mail: ‘The tornado astir apt lasted betwixt 7 and 13 minutes. Features of the scar suggest the whirling upwind wrong the tornado was moving successful a clockwise direction.

‘We besides deliberation the tornado moved from westbound to eastbound – which is accordant with the absorption of a beardown acold beforehand successful the portion astatine the time.’

The tornado is conscionable 1 of 3 that person been documented successful the Nullarbor Plain, a distant country with fewer residents.

It’s not the archetypal clip Google Earth has revealed immoderate alternatively unusual happenings. Earlier this month, a mysterious pitchy flying implicit the wilderness with its distinguishing marks blacked retired was spotted on Google Earth.

The craft was caught successful outer imagery flying above a immense authorities parkland in Alaska with achromatic marks obscuring its identifying features.  

The riddle sparked a lively online treatment among mystery enthusiasts intrigued by the achromatic marks covering areas connected the 747-400 wherever logos and registration numbers are usually placed. 

A reddish shadiness and airy from 1 of the aircraft’s engines tin besides beryllium seen successful the imagery taken implicit the distant Chena River State Recreation Area, a 254,000-acre parkland successful the US state.  

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