00:00Imagine walking through the hottest, most isolated desert on earth, surrounded by jacked cliffs and broken rocks.
00:08But then you look down and the ground changes.
00:11Scattered across the sand are hundreds of massive, perfectly round stone disks.
00:17They look like giant wheels or UFO cars from rock, frozen in time.
00:23This is not a science fiction movie set.
00:25This is the Valley of the Planets, one of the strangest and most mysterious landscapes hidden deep inside the Sahara
00:33Desert.
00:34To find this alien-like place, you have to travel deep into the southwestern corner of Libya, into a remote
00:42region called Tadrat Akakis.
00:44This area is famous for its harsh beauty, but the Valley of the Planets completely steals the show.
00:51The massive stone formations are shaped like flattened spears, spread across the desert floor as if someone deliberately placed them
01:01there.
01:01They look so smooth and uniform that it is hard to believe they were not made by human hands or
01:09something else.
01:10So how did they get here?
01:12Mainstream geologists believe these stones are the results of millions of years of extreme erosions.
01:19Over eons, fierce desert winds, whipped sand across the landscape, slowly shaving away the softer layers of the rock and
01:28leaving these hard round corners of the rock, leaving these hard round cores behind.
01:34Other scientists think they might be the remains of ancient geological layers that were slowly exposed as the ground around
01:43them wore away.
01:44But because the region is so isolated and difficult for the scientists to safely access, no one knows their exact
01:52age or the precise recipe of nature that created them.
01:57For now, the valley of the planet remains a beautiful untouched riddle locked away by the Sahara.
02:04Are they just a lucky accident of wind and a time?
02:08Or is there a deeper geological story we haven't uncovered yet?
02:13What do you think created these giant stone spades?
02:17Let me know in the comments below.
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