World Most Amazing Information

Atacama :
Atacama Desert is registered one of the biggest day/night thermal amplitude in the world because its 30°C during the day, while during the night the temperature drastically drops to around 0°C. The population is very rare. The cities were built around natural oasis, like San Pedro state, founded around 1450, with a population of around 5,000 people today. NASA scientists are using Atacama’s desert land for testing instruments.

Antarctica:
What usually, comes in our minds when we talk about deserts is the area that is covered with lots of sand and high temperatures, but there are other elements describing a desert, as well. One of them is the ice that we find in Antarctica. Millions of cubic km of water covers the area, where only the scientists live and those plants and animals survive that have managed to adapt to such an insensitive climate.

Patagonia:
The Desert of Patagonia is the biggest desert on the American continent and most of its area is in Argentina, with small areas in Chile. It’s a type of desert where it snows, and with temperatures below 12°C.

Thar:
Thar Desert is in India. It is the seventh largest desert in the world. Some people say that the desertification of the area is 4,000 years old, but others claim that it is over 10,000 years old.

Mojave:
The Mojave Desert is located in the United States, in a dry Californian area. Mojave is also the location of the Edwards AFB military base and a substitute landing zone to Cape Canaveral, for the shuttles returning from missions.


Kalahari:
It’s a desert with red sands. It is the world’s fourth biggest desert and covers around 520,000 square kilometers between Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The area is very rich in flora and fauna, aria labeled as natural monument by UNESCO.

Wadi Rum, India:
This desert fascinates people with his special colors, red in certain areas. A characteristic of the place are the imposing Shar Mountains, made of basalt and granite, with a height of over 1,600 m. This region is populated, by Bedouins, and also by the tourists in the area who are mostly climbers.


Gobi, Mongolia:
Its landscapes are fascinating, dry and rocky lands, in bright colors, by shrubs and bushes, small sands areas, some wild animals and lots of cave. In the 1920s, Roy Chapman Andrews and his men revealed over one hundred dinosaur fossils, dated 70 million years old.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia:
Salar de Uyuni is considered to be the most beautiful deserts of the world. It is unusual because unlike the others, it’s made of salt. The views really seem to be out of this world. It is full of active volcanoes, cactus, geysers, which are all lighted by the white of the salt.

Sahara:
Sahara is the world’s most famous desert. It is often chosen by writers as an ideal scenario for their work. It is known to be the biggest desert in the world, with an area of over 8,000,000 sq km. There was a time when this area was covered by glaciers, than it was to some extent flooded by the sea. However, the diversity of climatic conditions has left important traces on the soil.
There are ergs, sandy desert, which is one tenth of the total area of the Sahara desert. The vegetation volume is reduced in Sahara but only few drops of water are enough for the plants grown there to survive.