Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco, after a low pressure system pushed across northwestern Sahara. Preliminary NASA satellite data ...

It snowed on December 19 in the Sahara Desert, and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite was there (or rather, hundreds of miles overhead) to see it. The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper ...

Satellite images reveal ample water filling desert lakes that are usually bone dry for years at a time Heavy rains that drenched portions of the Sahara Desert this past summer filled lakes in ...

For the first time in over 50 years, the Sahara Desert—a place synonymous with ... far exceeding the region’s yearly average.

If you didn’t know the context, pictures of the Sahara Desert from the edge of space could easily be mistaken for the surface of Mars instead. The western edge of the African desert is caked in ...

Feature / 'Before and after satellite images show lakes appearing across sahara after deluge of rain soaks desert' Features In this section you'll find photographic features that explore holidays ...

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...

New satellite imagery ... Climate change is impacting desert rainfall. Where humid air from near the equator collides with hot, dry air further north, the Sahara Desert tends to see more rain.

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.