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For five out of seven years studied, the Lut Desert in Iran sweltered like no other place on the planet.


NASA images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat 7 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published April 12, 2012
Data acquired July 6, 1999

Source:
Landsat 7 > ETM+