Libyan Desert

Credit: Credit: USGS/NASA, Posted on: Sunday, 4 July 2004, 06:00 CDT Download full size image

Massive sand dunes have been swept between rock outcroppings in the barren Libyan Desert. Only a handful of oases lie scattered across this especially arid section of the vast Sahara Desert. This scene was acquired by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite on March 2, 2002. Image provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch as part of the Earth as Art II image series.

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