Mysterious circle between desert like human skin cells?

The strange circles that appear in Namibia's sandy meadow are still considered one of nature's most mysterious phenomena.

Mysterious circle pattern resembles human skin cells

Recently, researchers have found similarities between this mysterious phenomenon and pattern patterns distributed on human skin cells."This is a completely strange and amazing coincidence ," said Professor Robert Sinclair, head of the Department of Biomedical and Mathematical Sciences at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

These circles are in fact an unusual piece of bare land, with a diameter of 3 - 20 meters, alternating between thousands of shrubs and short grasses. Many research groups have tried to explain their origins, with countless guesses from herbivores, round-rolled zebras, resource competition to the carbon dioxide escaping from deep underground to kill the upper plants or even aliens.

Circles in the desert of Namibia are still a mysterious phenomenon for mankind

The research team led by Professor Sinclair used satellite imagery of desert circles to draw dividing lines between each pair of circles , after which the computer counted the number of areas surrounding each. circle. Scientists continue to compare the data obtained with the research results also calculate the area surrounding skin cells in the same way.

The results show that these two types are almost identical : Most skin cells and circles have 6 "neighbors". And the proportion of circles with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 neighbors is basically the same as in the skin cells.

The team found a similarity between this strange phenomenon and human skin cells.(Photo OIST)