Strange area in Nevada

[Alf]

Hi,
I found this in Nevada. Can somebody tell me what this is?
If you zoom out a bit and look south-east, there is a bright white/yellow spot with another big facility nearby. What is that?

Greetings

[watts]

That facility to the southeast is the Tonopah Test Range (enable the Airport overlay). Apparently, the F117 stealth fighter was tested there. That white area is either a dry lake bed or it's intentionally obscured because that facility has some secret research going on. Can they make it more obvious that an area on a map is all hush-hush?

The "strange area" looks like irrigation circles.


Link: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/tonopah.htm

[Alf]

Thank you.
I should use the airport overlay more often. I'm not quite sure with the irrigation circles. But I agree to you with the hush-hush-thing.
This huge dry lake area must have an interior (see attachment). Well, Area 51 isn't far away... :)

[Alf]

Thanks watts. Of course you were right with the irrigation circles. They are the same like these green spots everywhere. Never seen something like this before.
Link: http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect3/Sect3_3.html

[watts]

Yeah, I saw lots of those irrigation circles while patrolling through the farmlands in central Iraq. You can grow wheat just about anywhere if you have water. There's nothing like driving through a flat desolate desert and coming up on a green wheat field.