This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr
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The volcano’s thermal signature was detected by MODIS and is marked with a red overlay
thick clouds of hydrogen gas and dust have survived longer than their surroundings in the face of a blast of ultraviolet light from the hot
There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as Doradus
Great Salt Desert - Iran (False Color) Material:Stretched Canvas This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshroudedLike poster paints run wild, this image reveals an eclectic montage of landscapes in Iran's largest desert, the Dasht e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert. The word kavir is Persian for salt marsh. The almost uninhabited region covers an area of more than 77,000 square kilometers (29,730 square miles) and is a mix of dry streambeds, desert plateaus, mudflats, and salt marshes. Extreme heat, dramatic daily temperature swings, and violent storms are the norm