New photos released by NASA show the Sahara Desert — one of the most barren places on Earth — turning green after historic ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

North Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. This vast wilderness, the size of the United States, is the toughest part of the African continent – the sun rules mercilessly here.

Early in the 1970s, while living and working in Spain, Chen Maoping read a story in “National Geographic” about the Sahara Desert, and it captured her imagination. She became determined to live there.

Studiocanal Reveals First Images & Details For Gilles De Maistre’s Sahara-Set ‘The Desert Child’ Ahead Of EFM Launch ...

It's a surreal image left by the heavy rains that fell in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara ... as Nasa images have shown. So, the old desert lakes will ...

It snowed on December 19 in the Sahara Desert, and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite ... was in the right place at the right time to capture photos of the Saharan snowfall from the ground, and he's ...