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Iran’s Great Salt Desert

The rocks of Dasht-e Kavir tell tales of a much wetter environment millions of years ago.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott with information from Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College.

Published February 17, 2013
Data acquired October 15, 2011

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Landsat 5 > TM