Astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) were recently able to capture this image of terminal Lake Fitri, in the southern sector of the Sahara Desert, Africa. The photo was snapped in January, and it displays a host of interesting properties associated with this landscape feature.
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20 February 2012
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Trilobites, brachiopods, corals and other sea creatures can be found in abundance in rocks lying in a Moroccan desert. Experts discovered an ancient seabed at this location. The landscape feature is estimated to be about 400 million years old.This means that the lake dried out during the Devonian Period. When this ha... |
11 May 2011
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Astronomers know numerous details about prospective targets for space exploration, such as for example the surface of Mars, but they cannot test technologies they want to send there directly. Fortunately, they had two deserts on Earth that they can use as analogs for those environments. Readings collected by rovers, ... |
2 May 2011
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The most recent discoveries made in one of the most famous deserts in the world show that fish swam there in ancient times. The finding may hold additional pieces in the puzzle that seeks to explain how and why early humans emigrated out of Africa during the great migrations.One of the most important questions that r... |
29 December 2010
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According to new geological evidence, it would appear that a very large lake existed at the very core of the Egyptian Sahara desert many thousands of years ago. The body of water was impressive in size and depth, but desertification eventually subdued it.Data collected via radio instruments aboard the American space ... |
25 November 2010
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Experts are puzzled at a discovery recently made in the Egyptian desert. The area revealed a pristinely-preserved crater, which looks as if it was made on the Moon or Mars. Generally, impact features made on Earth are eroded by a host of natural processes, whereas the other two celestial bodies tend to preserve their... |
23 July 2010
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Global warming is more familiar to people for its potential effects in melting the polar ice caps, and in endangering low-lying countries and coast lines. However, one of its most devastating aspects is the fact that it can effortlessly promote desertification in areas that are already arid, and therefore prone to su... |
10 February 2010
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California's Death Valley is a fairly harsh place when it comes to deserts, with temperatures regularly reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day. At night, it gets so cold, that ice can form. In this rather inhospitable place, tourists and scientists have discovered one of the most unu... |
19 November 2009
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Deserts such as Sahara, Atacama, or Gobi, are so dry, that water cannot be found for hundreds of miles. The ground is cracked over miles and miles, and little to no vegetation endures. Cacti are almost the sole forms of life, together with snakes and other creatures adapted to the demands of living without water.... |
8 June 2009
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Everyone knows that one of the most distinctive features of any desert is the sand dune, a large pile of sand that gives the location its wave-like aspect. These dunes regularly grow to be from a few feet to tens of feet in height, but some of them, the giant sand dunes, can even reach 1,600 feet (590 meters), or eve... |
18 May 2009
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The growing effects of climate change and global warming have prompted a lot of companies and other entrepreneurs to start investing in renewable energy, such as solar power and wind farms. However, it would seem that a new problem is now emerging, namely the fact that large amounts of solar panels, scheduled to be c... |
30 March 2009
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