unknown facts about desert!
The Antarctic desert
is also the coldest in the world and experiences winter temperatures of -49
degrees Celsius on average, with the lowest temperatures recorded being -94.7
degrees Celsius and -92.9 degrees Celsius.
Over 1 billion people
live in deserts.
Scientists have
studied the driest desert in the world and have found that it hasn’t received
any rain for more than 40 million years. It’s called the Atacama desert, and to
this day no records can be found of it getting any rainfall.
According to
scientists the most dangerous place in the world is located inside Africa’s
Sahara desert.
Iran’s Lut desert
is home to the hottest recorded spot on the earth’s surface according to NASA’s
satellite data of land surface temperature. 70.7°C was recorded there in 2005
and the Lut has taken the hottest top spot on several annual occasions since.
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