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Out of curiosity, what is it?
"Trou au Natron" seems to translate from Fr*nch to "salt pit". It's probably a crater full of salt from an evaporated sea.
I should have just !wiki'd it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trou_au_Natron
I was partially correct. Natron salt in a volcanic caldera from active hot springs.
The red marker on the original image probably is the site of this X shaped marking on the top of the western dark region of the "skull" - OP probably assumed the X was the four edges of a pyramidal shape but this 3d Google Earth view from the western "eye" toward the eastern one shows that the X shaped region is flat and not pyramidal.
Edit: probably someone did some mining up there? Or a natural feature? Who knows, let me know if you go check for sarcophagi to prove me wrong