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For decades, a hole in the Turkmen desert has been burning. People call it the Door to Hell. The popular story says Soviet geologists lit it in 1971. But there are no records, and a 2026 satellite study says the fire probably started much later. So who lit it? And why is it finally going out? ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 The mystery 0:32 The hole in the desert 1:12 The story everyone tells 1:50 The evidence doesn't match 2:51 The man who went down 3:46 Why it never went out 4:17 Today 4:52 What happens to the mystery? 📌 What we know (and don't) • Size: roughly 70 m wide and 30 m deep (sources vary). • Origin: there is no official record. The "1971" story is a popular account; Turkmen geologists told explorer George Kourounis the crater collapsed in the 1960s and was lit in the 1980s; a 2026 study of Landsat archives places the start of continuous flaring in late 1987 or early 1988. • 2013: Kourounis became the first known person to reach the floor. • Autumn 2026: still burning, much weaker; an extinguishing plan has been announced, with no date. Methane keeps leaking from the ground. 📚 Sources • National Geographic, Q&A: The First-Ever Expedition to Turkmenistan's "Door to Hell" (2014): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140716-door-to-hell-darvaza-crater-george-kourounis-expedition • Valverde et al., Geophysical Research Letters (2026), satellite-based assessment of methane emissions from the Darvaza gas crater: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL120321 • NASA Earth Matters, Gates of Hell (2011): https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/earth-matters/2011/09/14/gates-of-hell/ • AFP / France 24 (June 2025) and AFP / RTE (August 2025) on the fire shrinking • RFE/RL (31 Dec 2025) and Times of Central Asia (7 Jan 2026) on the plan to extinguish it • Tighe et al. 2017, Extreme Microbiome Project, Journal of Biomolecular Techniques 🖼️ Credits • Photos via Wikimedia Commons: John Pavelka (CC BY 2.0), Stefan Krasowski (CC BY 2.0), miketnorton (CC BY 2.0), Where.is.amine (CC BY 4.0). Cropped, colour-adjusted and animated. • Satellite: JPSS imagery CSU/CIRA & NOAA/NESDIS (public domain); Landsat imagery courtesy of NASA/USGS; map data: Natural Earth. • Visuals: the 1970s drilling, the 2013 descent and the present-day crater are AI-generated reconstructions, labelled in the video. Music: original tracks made with Google Flow Music. Narration: AI voice. Subscribe and feed your wonder. #DoorToHell #Turkmenistan #Mystery #HiddenWorld

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