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On Friday, 31 January 2014
Turkmenistan's aptly named Door to Hell, a 230-foot-wide crater in the middle of the desert near the village of Deweze. In 1971, a team of Soviet scientists set up a drilling platform looking for natural gas reserves. The rig collapsed, and fearing the release of further poisonous gases from the cavern, the scientists decided to burn it off by setting the crater on fire. At that time, expectations were that the gas would burn out within days, but it is still burning.
That was more than 40 years ago.
