Thursday, September 2, 2021
French Astronaut snaps Circular Farms of Saudi Arabia stating its looking like a Pacman video game
A French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has posted stunning pictures of circular farms in Saudi Arabia, describing them as looking from space as an "invasion" of the famous video game character Pacman.
The astronaut, who took the image from the International Space Station, said that the circles are for farms that depend in their irrigation system on fossil irrigation from the depths of the earth, and the water is spread over the crops in a circular motion.
- He added that although the circular farms seem random in their locations, they follow the locations of underground reservoirs. Trending : Saudi Arabia launches Free Local Roaming service in the Kingdom
- Thomas Pesquet wrote in his post that, "A sight we see often while flying over the globe, Peas in the desert, a Pacman invasion, or Earth's record collection?".
- The green circles in the picture are the farm's agricultural fields of the Kingdom, During the year-round growing season, crops rotated through the fields, each field is irrigated with a center pivot sprinkler system.
- The non-renewable fossil water, which is at a depth level of 1 km is mined and pumped for irrigating the fields using center pivot irrigation system, it is being used for different fields like wheat and alfalfa. Recommend : Saudi Moroor reveals fines for speeding violations
- This irrigation system is of Boeing system which uses heavy water pumps that are capable of pumping water up to 5 miles in a circular radius, the circumference of it is around 3.5 km.
