Vegetation and lakes in the Sahara: How the driest part of the planet “greened”.
NASA images show vegetation in one of the driest regions of the planet as a result of torrential rains in early September. A tropical cyclone crossed the northwestern Sahara desert on September 7 and 8, passing through large dry areas of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, which rarely receive rain. MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)…