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Originally Posted by TimT

It was the Nazca Astronaut from Peru

I've always thought the Nazca stuff was amazing. I saw a show at some point that finally said and showed how they were made. They are surprisingly superficial up close. The area gets virtually no rain, ever. The lines were made by moving the dark colored rocks on the surface of the desert that's made of light colored sand. In photos from above, they look like they'd be either carved into the surface or relief, but they aren't.