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Terrifying! Photo of a Giant 'Skull' Appearance in the Sahara Desert Staring Sharply into Space, Turns Out This is the Fact

Dream - NASA released a photo that made the hair stand on end in the shape of a 'skull', which appeared grinning while looking towards outer space. The creepy-looking skull photo seemed to emerge from within a large volcano in Chad.

The following translation of the given 'Bahasa' text to 'English' preserves the html tags: "The photo was taken on February 12 by an unnamed astronaut from inside the International Space Station (ISS)."

At that time, the ISS was passing over the Tibesti Massif, a mountain range in the middle of the Sahara Desert that spans Chad and Libya. The photo was released by NASA's Earth Observatory on October 31st.

The appearance of the feature resembling a giant skull is located at the bottom of Trou au Natron, also known as Doon Orei. Trou au Natron is a volcanic crater 1,000 meters wide left by a massive volcanic eruption hundreds of thousands of years ago. This geological basin is located south of Tarso Toussidé, a larger stratovolcano and possibly still active.

Uniquely, each part of the skull is composed of components that exist within the Trou au Natron crater itself. The white color in the mouth, nose, and left cheek of the skull is composed of natron, which is a natural salt that contains sodium carbonate decahydrate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride, and sodium sulfate.

Formed from Nature

The area around the eyes and nostrils is a cone of cinder. This cone is actually a steep hill that emerges around the ventilation holes of the towering volcano above the remnants of the caldera floor. Meanwhile, the darker area on the left side of the face is a shadow produced by the high edge of the crater, which gives a distinctive shape to this skull.

Quoted from Live Science, Trou au Natron is currently arid and lifeless. However, experts believe that around 14,000 years ago, this place was a thriving glacial lake.

In the 1960s, researchers discovered fossil sea snails and plankton beneath a natron-covered floor, according to the Earth Observatory. And in 2015, a subsequent expedition found fossil algae dating back 120,000 years.

Uniquely, the age of Trou au Natron is not as old as the fossils found there. Trou au Natron is actually the youngest volcano in the Tibesti Massif. The surrounding volcanoes are likely much older than Trou au Natron itself.

"Not the First Scary Face Appearance"

This is not the first time an object shaped like a skull has been seen from outer space. In 2016, satellite images of Hurricane Matthew captured a strange whirlwind. The whirlwind resembled a black face with glowing red eyes and terrifying teeth. Hurricane Matthew was a Category 5 tropical storm that killed more than 600 people across the Caribbean.

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