This image , taken by Expedition 41 aboard the International Space Station , look like the ok graphics of some special - telluric , but it ’s actually 10 sometime marred terra firma and entrenchments of war along the Iraq / Iran border .
NASA ’s Earth Observatory writes :
organisation of large curved earthworks , circular gunman positioning , and flat connecting road run parallel to the external border .
First recollect by the ISS squad to be oil colour - stamp pad installations , the strategic location of these formations along the outside boundary made it easier to see these as convention of military fortifications . This area of oil refining and exportation was the mall of numerous military legal action during the war in the 1980s , especially during the defense of the southern city of Basra .
[ Earth Observatory ]
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