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Viewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns into a sea of dunes that ebb and flow with the wind, unabated by foliage ...
Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days.
The Erg Chebbi region of the Sahara desert in Morocco. The region is home to the 984 foot tall Lala Lallia star dune. Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...
The rock must have been formed over 4.565 billion years ago raises more questions about the origins of the universe and how old it really is.
Images of an Egyptian oasis is the scene for the Grand Ball of Osiris at the New Orleans Country Club for Mardi Gras merriment ...
A meteorite discovered in the Saharan desert was found to have broken off from a protoplanet from the early Solar System — before Earth and the remaining planetary bodies had formed.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tanezrouft Basin – one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara Desert. Tanezrouft is a region of the Sahara lying in […] ...
(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...
Sabah, Libya, is an oasis town at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. To stand at the edge of the town and look southward into the desert toward Niger is forbidding. The sand stretches past ...
The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat structure, stands out like an oversized ammonite among the sand dunes of the Sahara desert in Mauritania.
Journeying along an ancient trading route in the Moroccan Sahara Venturing into the undulating, orange dunes on the Sahara Desert’s northwestern fringes is one of Morocco’s ultimate adventures ...
In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria.