{"id":218213,"date":"2013-11-15T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"05de1dd714cc90a89cf68c4077dd4fc2"},"modified":"2013-11-15T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T08:50:00","slug":"dasht-e-lut-salt-desert-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218213","title":{"rendered":"Dasht-e Lut salt desert, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/11\/dasht-e_lut_salt_desert_iran\/13398574-1-eng-GB\/Dasht-e_Lut_salt_desert_Iran_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeast Iran is captured in this Envisat image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe desert is often called the \u2018hottest place on Earth\u2019 as satellites measured record surface temperatures there for several years. The highest land surface temperature ever recorded was in the Lut Desert in 2005 at 70.7\u00baC, as measured by NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe light area in the centre of the image are the long, parallel wind-carved ridges and furrows. The darker area to the east is an extent of massive sand dunes, some reaching up to 300 m tall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the upper-right section we can see a light green, shallow body of water that straddles Iran\u2019s border with Afghanistan. With their arid surroundings, the wetlands in this border region have been a major source of food and fresh water for thousands of years, as well as an important stop for migratory birds. But irrigation expansion combined with droughts have caused the water levels in these wetlands to drop significantly \u2013 and some years even dry up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the lower-left we can see the white, snow-capped Jebal Barez mountains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA major earthquake struck about 100 km east of the snow-caps in 2003, its epicentre near the ancient city of Bam (lower-central portion of image). Iran experiences frequent tectonic activity as several major fault lines cross the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was acquired by Envisat\u2019s MERIS instrument on 2 April 2012 and is also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/11\/Earth_from_Space_Hottest_place_on_Earth\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/11\/dasht-e_lut_salt_desert_iran\/13398574-1-eng-GB\/Dasht-e_Lut_salt_desert_Iran_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeast Iran is captured in this Envisat image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe desert is often called the \u2018hottest place on Earth\u2019 as satellites measured record surface temperatures there for several years. The highest land surface temperature ever recorded was in the Lut Desert in 2005 at 70.7\u00baC, as measured by NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe light area in the centre of the image are the long, parallel wind-carved ridges and furrows. The darker area to the east is an extent of massive sand dunes, some reaching up to 300 m tall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the upper-right section we can see a light green, shallow body of water that straddles Iran\u2019s border with Afghanistan. With their arid surroundings, the wetlands in this border region have been a major source of food and fresh water for thousands of years, as well as an important stop for migratory birds. But irrigation expansion combined with droughts have caused the water levels in these wetlands to drop significantly \u2013 and some years even dry up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the lower-left we can see the white, snow-capped Jebal Barez mountains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA major earthquake struck about 100 km east of the snow-caps in 2003, its epicentre near the ancient city of Bam (lower-central portion of image). Iran experiences frequent tectonic activity as several major fault lines cross the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was acquired by Envisat\u2019s MERIS instrument on 2 April 2012 and is also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/11\/Earth_from_Space_Hottest_place_on_Earth\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}