Too hot to handle 🌡️ You might be surprised to find this is in fact not a picture of our neighboring Red Planet – it’s the Sahara Desert. In this photograph captured by NASAAstronauts Astro_Kimbrough from the International Space Station (ISS) is one of the harshest environments on our planet: the largest hot desert on Earth. 🥵 Data from NASAEarth satellites show that wind and weather in the Sahara pick up on average 182 million tons of dust from the deserts of Africa and carries it 1,600 miles across the Atlantic Ocean each year. 🚚 This volume is equivalent of 689,290 semi-trucks filled with dust. This dust helps build beaches in the Caribbean and fertilizes soils in the Amazon. It affects air quality in North and South America. It likely plays a role in the suppression of hurricanes and the decline of coral reefs as well. Credit: NASA / Shane Kimbrough #NASA #NASAEarth #Sahara #Amazon #TheMoreYouKnow