When we hear the word "Sahara Desert" beyond the stress of survival, associations come with sand, camels, oats and no oasis. But in the deserts, other, incredible things happen! Time to learn the incredible things that are happening in the vast desert!
1. The present and the past of the Sahara.
The Sahara stretches over 3.5 million square miles and covers 10 countries, with more than 15 lakes but only one with drinking water. The rest of the lakes have no drinking water as they have a lot of salt! Rainfall in the Sahara is a phenomenon ... just as rare as the Solar Eclipse! If we let a faucet run for a while, the average rainfall will reach Sahara! Temperatures in the day exceed 40 degrees Celsius, and in the evening thaw!
The Sahara has not always been so! Many thousands of years ago, the Sahara was an area that resembled the Amazon jungle. Many species of animals and vast areas of dense vegetation have made people live in abundance. But the fall of a meteorite has changed the climate and gradually, the Sahara has become what it is today! Let's look at just one example of what climate change means, so don't forget!
2. The Italian Marathon Runner.
The Ammou Marathon, which took place in 1994, took place in the worst possible conditions. The Italian Prosperous Marathoner will have to remember it all his life! He fell into a puddle and, due to a storm, woke up the next morning, realizing that he had run out of the water and that he was lost!
His luck smiled as he found a mosque with bats. How he survived does not need to be mentioned! It matters that after 9 days he managed to survive in the desert! We can say that we finally have an incident where man defeated the wild side of nature!
3. Dinosaur bones!
The Sahara is for us a huge area that does not host living conditions, so beyond fear and fear we will never get there, it does not bother us much.
As mentioned, the Sahara was once an area full of life! Millions of years ago, dinosaurs lived! Huge skeletons have been found in the Sahara by dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Massaurosaurus! The difficulties of further research have to do with the inhospitable Sahara research and its intolerable - for the human - climate.
4. Goldfish in the desert!
It is sometimes curious that an area, even like the Sahara, can suddenly gain interest because of gold. What if even research for gold could cost us life in such an environment? Only if we could find a new El Dorado, would it be enough to put any risk down!
A shepherd in the Sahara (in the Niger region) had found a rock containing gold. That gold was not worth more than $ 2,000! However, this amount of gold is 2 years of the average citizen of many countries in the region! So sudden fury broke out for gold! However, so far, too much gold has turned out to be sand!
5. The hottest recorded temperature on Earth.
California is one of the hottest areas on the planet! It is also recorded in the Guinness record for the highest recorded temperature! In 1922, in the Libyan Sahara, the previous California record was dropped (1913). In the Sahara, the temperature has reached near 58 degrees Celsius.
The reason why Sahara has not been included in the Guinness book is simple: Meteorologists need stations to be able to study temperatures accurately. This is not the case, especially when the Sahara has very difficult conditions for scientists to survive and at the same time, it is a vast expanse! In other words, the Sahara certainly surpasses California in high-temperature competition, but it cannot be monitored scientifically due to the lack of meteorological stations!