Re: Google Earth



Herb Schaltegger wrote:

On the Google Earth Community BBS, I found one reference to it as the "Stallion W.I.T." whatever that is. Interestingly, googling that phrase turns up one relevant hit: a November 2005 list of permanent latrines scattered throughout White Sands showing locations, how often they're serviced and who to contact about it . . . ;-)

Anyway, I'll check out that Terraserver imagery and see what it shows.


The level of detail is far, far, higher than the Google maps. On the Terraserver image the whole area in the rectangle (actually the rectangle isn't there anymore or maybe it was put in after 1996, but that wouldn't explain where the circular feature above it went) is pretty much empty except for that odd thing that looks like a abandoned AA or SAM site. At least this lets you see that the circle around the rectangle is a road, not a wall, although there may be a fence associated with it as the design (a circle subdivided into fourteen straight segments) is identical to the one around ground zero.
An alternative to the irrigation theory is that the soil has been plowed by something driving in a spiral out from the center point of the two large circles.
What I'm interested in now is the abandoned complex of the east of the circular thing- this looks like it could be rocket related, particularly given that those roads converge north of it, much as one would expect them to do at a launch pad. These are major roads and quite wide...when I first saw them I thought they might be runways due to their width.
There is also some sort of a circular feature at the heart of this complex:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=13&X=1815&Y=18604&W=3&qs=%7cwhite+sands+%7c%7c
The remnants of a blockhouse? A raised diamond-shaped structure (if I'm reading the shadows right), and what may be a explosives storage bunker. The whole area is a complex spider web of roads and paths, one of which leads straight up to the Trinity test site.

Pat
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