NASA Photo of the Day: The Great Salt Desert of Iran

ChamorroBible.org ^ | October 15, 2011 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

[EnjoyingLife]

Iran's Great Salt Desert (Dasht-e Kavir) photographed from the NASA Landsat 5 satellite on October 15, 2011.
1500 x 1000, 2000 x 1333, 3000 x 2000, 4000 x 2667, 4931 x 3287. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-201312.htm

[nathanbedford]

Looks like a good place for Iran to test their new bomb in the very near future.

[mosesdapoet]

WOW ! In the top end those craters looks like it was hit by large meteorites.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Where the Garden of Eden used to be?

[Blueflag]

/ smirk ... could also be used as a good “AFTER” picture.

does it glow in the dark???

[Red Badger]

Looks like a Van Gogh painting..................

[Rodamala]

Perhaps the Nøbel Peace Prize-winning Halfrican will turn all of Iran's sand into glass first.

[KarlInOhio]

Add some more red color and it could be Mars.

Is there a National Reconnaissance Office photo of the day ping list? This would work on both it and NASA.

[A'elian' nation]

Hello NathanBedford

Would you mind parlaying the reaction in Germany of OweBowMao tapping Merkel’s mobile phone ?

Are Europeans finally waking up to the empty shell of this man and that his NSA is even more insidious than it was under Bush?

[dangus]

You’re probably thinking Shat-Al-Arab (meaning “sandman poop”) in Iraq, where the Tigris and Euphrates flow together, forming three rivers. This region, once a temperate, fertile river valley at the cradle of civilization, is now a desert. Anti-literalist historians figure it is the source for the “Eden myth” as they call it, which they claim is based on this edenic site becoming unliveable.

Aquinas and many others argued that Eden was not corporeal.

[dangus]

You’re probably thinking Shat-Al-Arab (meaning “sandman poop”) in Iraq, where the Tigris and Euphrates flow together, forming three rivers. This region, once a temperate, fertile river valley at the cradle of civilization, is now a desert. Anti-literalist historians figure it is the source for the “Eden myth” as they call it, which they claim is based on this edenic site becoming unliveable.

Error: I meant that Aquinas and many others argued that Eden WAS corporeal.

[nathanbedford]

I commented on this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3083872/posts?page=19#19

And FReeper, alexander_busek, had observations of merit to make on that thread.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks EnjoyingLife, terrestrial shot, but a nice extra to APoD members.

[JPG]

If I didn’t know, I’d have guessed Mars.

[henkster]

I thought the same thing. It does look like Mars.

[martin_fierro]

Somewhere in all that vast wasteland ... Is a Starbuxx.