DUNE DOOM
22nd July 2013
The film set in the Sahara desert – situated near the namesake of Darth Vader’s home world, the Tunisian city of Tataouine – will be soon buried by a crescent-shaped sand dune, or barchan. The dune appears to be poised to “eat” the city in this time-lapse gif of collated Google Earth images from Kotaku.com. Sand dunes move across Earth 10 times faster than the sands of Mars sweep across the Red Planet.