The Sahara Desert Sure Looks Unwelcoming

The Sahara Desert Sure Looks Unwelcoming

The Sahara desert, over southeastern Algeria, sure looks unwelcoming. With humans unwilling to spend weeks surveying such a space, satellites do the job for them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they’re revealing evidence of soil degradation and overwhelming dehydration — a result of the area seeing less than 10 mm of rainfall per year. [ESA]


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