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november 21, 2013 - European Space Agency
Dasht-e Lut salt desert, Iran
The Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeast Iran is captured in this Envisat image. The desert is often called the ‘hottest place on Earth’ as satellites measured record surface temperatures there for several years. The highest land surface temperature ever recorded was in the Lut Desert in 2005 at 70.7ºC, as measured by NASA’s Aqua satellite. The light area in the centre of the image are the long, parallel wind-carved ridges and furrows. The darker area to the east is an extent of massive sand dunes, some reaching up to 300 m tall...
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