Evidence-backed unusual places in Mauritania, grouped with maps, original sources and useful geographic context. These are crawlable research records, not an indiscriminate directory: reports without enough depth remain available for exploration but are excluded from search indexing.
Natural world · US Geological SurveyThe eye visible from orbit
Adrar Plateau, Mauritania
Concentric geological rings form an enormous circular structure in the Sahara.
Map, evidence and context →METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite LandingsAioun el Atrouss meteorite
Recorded meteorite landing
A Diogenite-pm meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 1,000 g.
Map, evidence and context →METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite LandingsBassikounou meteorite
Recorded meteorite landing
A H5 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 29,560 g.
Map, evidence and context →METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite LandingsBoumdeid (2003) meteorite
Recorded meteorite landing
A L6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 190 g.
Map, evidence and context →METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite LandingsBoumdeid (2011) meteorite
Recorded meteorite landing
A L6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 3,599 g.
Map, evidence and context →METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite LandingsKiffa meteorite
Recorded meteorite landing
A H5 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 1,500 g.
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