It snowed on December 19 in the Sahara Desert, and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite was there (or rather, hundreds of miles overhead) to see it. The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper ...

Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco, after a low pressure system pushed across northwestern Sahara. Preliminary NASA satellite data ...

The Sahara desert is a scorching ... and it even covers the northern end of the desert near the Moroccan-Algerian border town of Ain Safra. This satellite image shows a comparison with previous ...

and it has since been captured in many satellite images. Despite its remote location, the Eye of the Sahara attracts visitors who want to see the formation up close. However, the desert ...

Satellite imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) showed desert dust moving north across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, February 3.“A plume of dust from the ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years looks like an eerie, gold-speckled shadow in this stunning composite of three years' worth of satellite photos.

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...