ElPelado,
Are you sure they are not real craters? Or should I say Calderas. There are some volcanic areas in the Dead Sea region. If you follow from the Sea of Galilee in the upper portion on the picture and follow it down to the Dead Sea and continue following it down to the Red Sea you are looking at a branch of he Red Sea Rift system. Very tectonically active and volcanically active as well. If you know were to look you can find volcanoes all over in this region. If you load a 16k Earth texture or the 32k VT texture and look several hundred miles east of the Sea of Galilee you will see a dark brown patch surrounded by a littler brown larger area. The dark brown patch is a volcano and the lighter browns are its lava flows. Of course this can be seen allot better with the 21600x21600 BlueMarble images.
Africa has two of the biggest volcanic calderas visible from space and they can even be seem in a smaller texture as far down as an 8k I believe.
There is this one smack in the middle of the Sahara Desert with other volcanoes all around it.
Then there is the most famous one that had been talked about in animal documentaries for over twenty years. I always wondered were this caldera was and until I got the large textures to work with I found it. If you look in the picture you can plainly see Mt. Kilimanjaro on the right side in the picture and the caldera nature preserve dead to the west.
Just trying to point out that what we see isn’t always what it is or it is and we just are not seeing it right.
I am officially a retired member.
I might answer a PM or a post if its relevant to something.
Ah, never say never!!
Past texture releases, Hmm let me think about it
Thanks for your understanding.
