For over five decades, the Sahara Desert remained a hot ... received 3.9 inches of rainfall. NASA’s satellite images also showed water from the historic rainfall rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui ...
Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco, after a low pressure system pushed across northwestern Sahara. Preliminary NASA satellite data ...
and it has since been captured in many satellite images. Despite its remote location, the Eye of the Sahara attracts visitors who want to see the formation up close. However, the desert ...
This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...
It snowed on December 19 in the Sahara Desert, and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite was there (or rather, hundreds of miles overhead) to see it. The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper ...
The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...
Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.