💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🕳️🔥 A Soviet drilling accident in 1971 collapsed a #gas cavern in #Turkmenistan, creating a 70-meter #crater engineers set on fire expecting it to burn out in weeks.
It burned for over 50 years until the #government ordered wells drilled to capture the #methane, and satellite #data confirms the flames have dropped by more than 75% since 2022.
👉 https://boingboing.net/2026/07/23/darvaza-gates-of-hell.html?fk_bb
#darvaza #geology #earth #science #naturalgas #climate #desert #robots #engineering