a satellite image of the Sahara desert
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Jebel Kissu, in northwestern Sudan, emerges abruptly like an island in the vast Sahara Desert. The plateau is the eroded remnant of a granite dome. The bright linear features are truck tracks, common in the Sahara where there are no paved roads.

[Rerun] Global evaluation of the Earth

By , 18.06.21

Decades of data from satellite remote sensing has provided a better understanding of the climate system and its changes, by quantifying processes and states of the atmosphere, land and oceans.

Henrik Prætorius from Science Stories takes a closer look at four myths about Mother Earth with Professor Rasmus Fensholt, Department of Geosciences and Nature Management at the University of Copenhagen (in Danish).⁣

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