A camera affixed to the international space station recently spotted curious symbols in a sterile desert landscape.
“It drew our attention,” said Mashable Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and Space Livestreaming Company Sen.
Sen has three cameras hosted on the space station, one of which looks directly on our planet and covers a scene of around 250 to 150 kilometers (155 per 93 miles). (You can watch this view, broadcast live in a high-resolution 4K video, online. 4K refers to a horizontal display of some 4000 pixels, and is also known as ultra high-define or ultra HD.) The recent sequence shows which seems to be a huge “mysterious writing engraved in the sand”, explained the company.
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Symbols are an example of the type of phenomena – both natural and created by humans – revealed by the camera like the space station, located about 250 miles above the earth, zooms in on us at 17,000 MPH.
These models similar to letters in fact come from agricultural activity, contrasting alive by the sterile desert plains in Tunisia, explained black. But Sen does not always reveal exactly what his cameras have observed. Are these agricultural zones irrigated in leaflets of an aquifer? Or cattle terrains? What to do You think?
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“You never know what you might see.”
“We want the public to be hired,” said Black. “He promotes debate, discussion and interest. We will label the location, but we want viewers to decide, discuss and make comments.”
The recent 4K video sequence below, showing the symbols similar to writing, is April 15, 2025.
A screenshot of the 4K Images of Sen from the international space station (video above this image) showing patterns of writing in the middle of the distant Tunisian desert.
Credit: Sen / screenshot
Anyone with an internet connection can connect to Sen’s images. And they will regularly see new sites. The space station orbit around the earth about 16 times a day, and during each orbit, the floating laboratory moves a little to the west. “Whenever you connect, you can see something different,” said Black. “You never know what you might see.”
Getting such cameras aboard the station is not a simple feat. The SEN system had to go from electromagnetic interference, or EMI, tests to ensure that their camera activity does not interfere with the communications and radiofrequencies of the station. The system had to spend three NASA security journals. And Sen had to find a host aboard the multinational football station on the field. The cameras are hosted on a European space agency module aboard an Airbus platform, which provides both energy and a share of a downward link from NASA.
The space station, however, will not orbit the earth forever. It is planned to be carefully designed, via a space crafts, in the atmosphere around 2030, where it will separate and vaporize largely (the remaining pieces will plunge into the Pacific Ocean). Sen therefore provides future live cameras on board other professions, including those more distant from our planet, allowing Termlings a real -time world vision of our humble cosmic house.
If you connect to the current views of the camera, you will find out tentacular cities like Las Vegas, mountain ranges with glowing in snow like the Rockies, the aqua lives in the Caribbean waters and beyond.
“You see a beautiful planet and a world without borders,” said Black.
