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Master of Strange natural wonders
misslily The Door to Hell
They set a spark and thought the flame would quickly fade away, But fifty years have passed and still Darvaza burns today.
misslily The Darvaza crater burns in a remote desert, attracting tourists and glowing visible from space.
misslily Scientists set the crater on fire to prevent deadly methane gas from spreading to nearby villages.
misslily Slide the stones and dodge the sparks to discover how these strange natural wonders work.
Darvaza's depth: The Darvaza gas crater is roughly 65 feet deep, which is deep enough to stack five highway transit buses on top of each other.
A large, bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet. In 1971, Soviet drilling caused a massive cavern to collapse, forming the burning Darvaza crater in Turkmenistan.
What did the Turkmenistan government order experts to do regarding the Darvaza gas crater in 2022?
In what year did the drilling accident that created the Darvaza gas crater occur?