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Turkmenistan Gas Crater Could Finally Burn Out, Say Experts. 'Door to Hell' Has Been On Fire Since 1971
In the heart of the vast Karakum Desert, a fiery pit lit the night skies for decades. Recently, researchers said that this legendary fiery crater might be seeing its last days. Scientists who track ...
Why it's incredible: The entire gas crater has been on fire for more than 50 years. The "Gates of Hell," also known as the Darvaza gas crater after a nearby village, is a methane- and fire-filled ...
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Turkmenistan's 'Gate to Hell' is finally burning out
The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand flames ...
ASHGABAT, June 19. /TASS/. Specialists from the Turkmengas holding have drafted a plan to extinguish the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert, which has been on fire for more than fifty years, ...
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