There are hot places in Iran – only a cunning fox can survive in the scorching 80 degrees

In Central Europe has been sharpened in a pinch dome. In France, the heat has already become inhuman. But there are only hot spots in Iran. In many ways.

The big sand desert has downright inhuman conditions. It’s so hot there that even a camel likes to hump.

Money remembers that the hottest place in the world is California’s Death Valley, where the global temperature record of 56.7 degrees was measured more than a hundred years ago. So it’s the air temperature. But measured from the surface of the earth, the hottest place is in Iran.

A large sandy desert is located in the eastern parts of Iran. In Persian its name is Dasht-e Lut, “plain of emptiness”. This merciless desert is larger in area than Estonia. There, the sand burns your feet at up to 80 degrees.

A NASA satellite measured Dasht-e Lut from the chamber surface temperature of 80.8 degrees ten years ago. You could fry an egg in the sand.

The unwise sharpening is explained by the composition of the sand. In some places, the desert soil has black, magnetite-rich sand that absorbs heat. The landforms are also such that the air hardly gets to circulate. In the summer, the air in the desert can heat up to 50 degrees.

One a researcher who visited the desert describes Science-in the scientific journal, how a strange, soft bang could be heard from the walls of a canyon. Rocks pop as the scorching heat expands them after a cold night.

In the wilderness only a few animals survive. One of them is the sand fox. The big-eared repo roams the desert at night looking for food. It sleeps in its hole for the rest of the day. Big ears help the sand fox to dissipate heat efficiently.

The sand fox is a different animal from the desert fox that lives in Africa. However, both are comfortable in the sand and desert.

The fox’s main food source is surprising. It eats dead migratory birds. You see unlucky birds straying into the desert on a regular basis and never getting out. The birds seek shelter from the heat in the canyons, but die of thirst.

A sand fox goes to pick up the carcasses in its mouth. It completes its food circle with insects and fussy plants.