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The hottest land surface on Earth recorded by the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer installed on NASA's Aqua satellite from 2003 to 2010 was in Dasht-e Lut, with land surface temperatures reaching 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), though the air temperature is cooler, ranging from 45 °C (113 °F) to 55 °C (131 °F) in the daytime during summer.
Satellite measurements of ground temperature taken between 2003 and 2009, taken with the MODIS infrared spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite, found a maximum temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), which was recorded in 2005 in the Lut Desert, Iran. The Lut Desert was also found to have the highest maximum temperature in 5 of the 7 years ...
Yakhchāl of Moayedi, Iran. A yakhchāl (Persian: یخچال "ice pit"; yakh meaning "ice" and chāl meaning "pit") is an ancient type of ice house, which also made ice.They are primarily found in the Dasht-e Lut and Dasht-e-Kavir deserts, whose climates range from cold (BWk) to hot (BWh) desert regions.
English: The Dasht-e Lut is a large salt desert located in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. It is characterized by wind-shaped ridges and furrows (Persian: kalout) reaching 75m in height.
In the north of the basin is the large Dasht-e Kavir (a salt desert), in the east and south is the Dasht-e Lut (a sand and gravel desert), and there are portions of the plateau covered in large sand dunes. The average elevation is 900 metres (3,000 ft). [1]
And this is at 54 N latitude, with a fairly weak sun angle. Now look at Shreveport, LA. The NASA map shows a temperature of maybe 40 C (104 F); though it's hard to tell the exact temperature, it is clearly a darker color than the are to the west of Lake Winnipegosis. On August 22, 2005, the AIR temperature reached a maximum of 40 C (104 F). I ...
There are three distinct deserts in the basin - the Dasht-e Margo, the Registan Desert, and the Dasht-e Khash. To the north are the Central Mountain ranges of Afghanistan, which are themselves the western extensions of the Hindu Kush Mountains.
Dasht-e Kavir; Dasht-e Lut; Dasht-e Naomid; K. Kavir National Park; M. Maranjab Desert; P. Petregan playa; Polond Desert This page was last edited on 12 April 2019 ...