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2024-08-25 14:38
Satellite image showing Lake Urmia shades of red and orange
TEHRAN – The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite recently captured a transition in the color of Lake Urmia between April and July 2016.
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2023-09-30 18:15
By Afshin Majlesi
Awe-inspiring Lut Desert: a photographer’s paradise
TEHRAN - With its endless stretches of golden dunes, rugged landscapes, and mesmerizing geological formations, the Lut Desert stands as a testament to the raw beauty of our planet.
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2023-08-12 22:03
Iran’s Rig Yelan named hottest place on Earth
TEHRAN - The desert area of Rig Yelan in Iran’s South Khorasan province, where a temperature of 73.5°C was recorded on 17 July 2022, is the hottest place on Earth, the provincial tourism chief has said.
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2023-07-22 18:29
Center for desert studies inaugurated near UNESCO-designated Lut Desert
TEHRAN – On Saturday, a scientific research center dedicated to desert studies was officially inaugurated in the Shahdad region of Iran’s Kerman province.
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2022-11-18 18:23
NASA’s $93b taxpayer mission as U.S. poverty rises
TEHRAN- After years of delays and technical problems, the U.S. space agency, NASA, has finally kick-started its costly aerospace mission using $93 billion of the American worker’s taxpayer money at a time when a large proportion of families in the country are struggling to put food on the table.
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2022-07-18 20:30
Experts set up camp to measure Lut Desert temperature
TEHRAN – Early on Sunday, a team of experts commenced a mission to measure the temperature of the UNESCO-registered Lut desert.