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Why can't the 'Hell's Gate' burned for 50 years in Turkmenistan be filled?
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Scientists propose the idea of drilling 'Hell's Gate' to put out the fire
Scientists propose drilling 'Gateway to Hell' in central Turkmenistan to extinguish the crater that has burned for decades.
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World's Largest Lake: Caspian Sea, is it really a 'sea' or a 'lake'?
Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan, the countries that surround the Caspian, cannot agree on whether this is a lake or a sea.
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Turkmenistan wants to extinguish the 'Gate of Hell' that has been burning for 50 years in the desert!
Some Turkmen geologists say the crater appeared in the 1960s but did not start burning until the 1970s, and it has been in the Karakum desert for the past 50 years.
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Decoding the 'desert kite' on the Ustyurt plateau
Ustyurt is located in Central Asia, spanning Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
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7 mysterious death holes on Earth
Many mysterious lands in the world are thought to be the gateway to the afterlife, from a permanent fire pit in Turkmenistan to the sinking holes in Mexico.
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Mysterious and closed Central Asian country with the outside world
For nearly 30 years, Turkmenistan's Central Asian country has been completely mysterious to the outside. This country grows mainly based on its huge oil reserves.
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New video filmed the fearsome 'hell gate' for 50 years
The Sun has just published an amazing video of 'hell gate' in Turkmenistan.
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7 most impressive deep holes in the world
Whether of natural or artificial origin, many unique craters impress by depths of up to hundreds of meters and their diameter in kilometers.
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Son Doong enters the top scary destination in the world
The Buzzfeed page of the US has just brought Son Doong cave to the list of destinations that suffocates viewers next to Turkmenistan's Hell's Door and Devil's Nose in No…
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The sad truth about the eternal fire pit
Central Turkmenistan is known for its giant fire pit, which has been burning for more than 40 years. But behind the miraculous thing that seems to be the masterpiece of…
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Detecting long tail bugs under the ground with cheese bait
Scientists have discovered a new animal with six feet of insects in a cave in Turkmenistan thanks to the bait of cheese, according to UPI.
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Ancient mysteries appear in the Turkmenistan desert
More than four millennia ago, the fortress town of Gonur-Tepe may have been a rare civilization before it was buried for centuries under the dust of the desert Kara Kum,…
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'Door to hell' in Turkmenistan
In the midst of Turkmenistan's Karakum desert, a huge hole has been burning for more than 40 years, and there is no sign that it will soon die. At first glance, it is ea…
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Exploration of the gate of hell The flaming wildfire in Turkmenistan
A world-famous explorer has become the first to go down