We stock a wide assortment of Helikon cargo pants, combat shirts and tactical equipment in this unique camouflage, as well as hunting packs and MOLLE rucksacks from such well-known brands as Direct Action and Wisport. Available now at Military 1st online store is a range of Badlands camo clothing, military backpacks and combat gear that will meet all the expectations of any hunter, Airsofter or paintball player. Complex organic fractal design of this PenCott camouflage works well in dry, semi-arid and transitional environments such as high plains, dry pine forests, off-season woodlands or rocky, mountainous areas and moorlands. This also results in how good Badlands camo looks and works: deceiving the eye at close range while merging into irregular shapes and shades at a distance. Despite a small number of colors used, the pattern successfully creates a distortion effect: an illusion of shading and additional color tones because of the way the areas of tiny pixels of different colors mix. Or more precisely: pale sand, dark earth, scrub green and mushroom brown. It consists of a complex combination of both small and large pixel shapes in four colors: flat earth, dark brown, green and light beige. This feature known as the Badlands Guardian was first discovered in Google Earth imagery in 2005. Twenty-five miles east of the town of Medicine Hat in Alberta Canada is a landform that resembles a face looking due west.
^ PCWorld In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth PC World Staff J1:00 am."Top 10 Google Earth Finds: A Face in the Clay". ^ As It Happens 3D rendering by CBC Radio.^ a b CBC Radio: As It Happens "Alberta's Aztec Rocker?" (Includes taped interview with geology professor Dr.Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. It resembles a human head, wearing Native American headdress-and also appears to be naturally adorned with. The Badlands Guardian, for example, a natural geologic formation near Alberta, Canada, was often visited by online aviators. Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. ^ a b c Sydney Morning Herald Article by Stephen Hutcheon: "Gran's canyon is a net sensation" November 13, 2006.^ "Atlas Obscura names Alberta's 'Badlands Guardian' curious, hidden wonder | CBC News".Old Man of Hoy, a rock pillar off Scotland that resembles a standing man.Old Man of the Mountain, (former) rock profile in New Hampshire (collapsed on May 3, 2003).Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Andes, near Lima, Peru with numerous rock formations with surprising likenesses to specific animals, people, and religious symbols.Inuksuk, traditional Native Arctic peoples' stone "marker statuaries" in Alaska and Arctic Canada."Face on Mars", photographed by Viking 1 in 1976.
In 2006, suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which were installed recently and are expected to disappear once the project is abandoned. Additional man-made structures have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure.
Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward.