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PremiumVIVAnews -geographically, the Iran surrounded by mountains and divided into a number of dry Valley. Dasht-e Lut, a desert of salt in southeastern Iran is one of the largest desert basin.
The desert has a length of about 480 kilometers and a width of 320 kilometers. In total, the vast area of Dasht-e Lut reached about 51800 square kilometers.
Dasht-e Lut Desert Valley is also the most dry and hot in the world. According to a NASA satellite, there is one area where the temperature of the surface never reached 71 degrees Celsius. This is the most high temperature records that ever happened in the Earth's surface.
The area was called Gandom Beriyan (wheat terpanggang), the wide reach of about 480 square kilometers. As quoted from Earth Snapshot, April 27, 2011, the cause of the high temperature in the region is because of its surface covered by lava of the volcano.
The dark layer absorbs more sunlight. Due to the difference in temperature with the region that have different heights around it, in the region formed a wind tunnel.
The eastern part of Dasht-e Lut is a plain filled with salt. In the middle of the comrades is the mountains and parallel grooves carved naturally by the wind the long reach of 150 kilometers and a height of up to 75 meters.
This area is also full of ravines and sinkholes. In the Southeast, there is a vast desert with dunes that reach an altitude of 300 meters. Sand dunes in the area is one of the highest in the world.
The most heat in the Earth's surface
