The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

When you think of towering sand ... desert views. One of Bruneau Dunes’ standout features is its observatory, which offers visitors an up-close view of Idaho’s remarkable night skies.

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

Surfboards propped against a tent in a desert camp await those wishing to climb the Sahara dunes and sand-surf down ... Although we didn’t spend the night in the Sahara when we visited in ...

AIN SEFRA, Algeria – For the second time in two years, a blanket of snow covered parts of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa ... The video showed dunes blanketed in fresh snow, but streets appeared ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.

The vast white sands of the Lencois Maranhenses desert meet with the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. This surreal landscape is ...

"Arrakis is Dune, and Dune is sand," said Dune: Awakening executive producer Scott Junior, describing the desert planet that serves as the setting for the upcoming multiplayer survival game.