# @worldscifest on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/8n-wJ7k9mw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2461369-worldscifest-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7c36582cfc.jpg
- **Posted:** 2015-10-09T17:09:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WorldScienceFestival (@WorldSciFest) — https://gondola.cc/WorldSciFest

## Caption

The so-called “star dunes” of Sossusvlei in the Namib #Desert, which feature limbs of #sand extending out like points of a #star, form when the #wind #blows from different directions. Sossusvlei, whose name combines Nama and Afrikaans words to mean “dead-end marsh,” is a #salt and #clay pan that prevents the flow of Namibia’s Tsauchab River.
#photooftheday #science #nature
📷: Courtesy of Shutterstock

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nature, desert, science, salt, photooftheday, star, sand, wind, blows, clay

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