40 Epic Images Show Planet Earth in a Whole New Light - Earth.com

The Sahara Desert stretches over one-tenth of the African continent – its scorching heat creating an unforgiving landscape. But it’s not all hot sand and shade-free dunes. This NASA image from 2015 shows the Sahel, a patch of relatively wet woodland that grows in the center of an otherwise arid swath of land.

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