A space shot shows a circular crater in a barren Turkmenistan desert, a mud volcano where methane gas burns perpetually and a new bacterium is discovered. In the Namibian desert, drones reveal perfect “fairy circles” in distinctive patterns, and similar circle patterns were spotted in the Australian outback. Mathematician Alan Turing determined their cause. In Death Valley CA, huge rocks mysteriously move randomly across the sand; GPS trackers finally solved the puzzle. The mystery of the neon blue ponds in Utah’s Moab desert was solved by an ISS astronaut’s photograph.