(CN) — The European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A satellite captured photographs of the Arabian Peninsula's Rub' al Khali desert, the longest contiguous sand desert in the world. ESA released the ...

I'm neck-deep in one of those weeks where it feels like I can barely stop and rest for a minute, much less write a blog post worth reading. So, instead, here are some striking images of sand dunes in ...

Ar Rub al Khali Sand Sea, Arabian Peninsula is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 27 crew member on the International Space Station. The Ar Rub al Khali, also known as the “Empty ...

This is a tiny fragment of the Empty Quarter, a sand sea larger than France. Ar Rub’ al Khali is an erg that stretches across four countries, covers most of the Arabian Peninsula, holds half as much ...

June 15 (UPI) --An image shared by NASA this week features a rare sight, rain puddles in Rub' al-Khali, the world's largest contiguous sand desert. At the end of May, the tropical cyclone Mekunu ...

In 1930, a small team of men led British explorer Bertram Thomas on what became the first recorded crossing of Rub' al Khali, or "The Empty Quarter", the largest sand desert in the world. For the ...

Take a flight of discovery high above Rub' al Khali in the United Arab Emirates, also known as the "Empty Quarter," the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Witness breathtaking aerial footage ...

For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret. In 2002, ...

1. You can fish for black piranha, which have the most powerful bite of any living fish species, in the Rewa River. This river is located in which small South American country west of Suriname? 2. For ...

Vol. 26, Papers from the twenty-ninth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Cambridge, 20-22 July, 1995 (1996), pp. 1-12 (14 pages) The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only ...

DNO International ASA, Oslo, has taken a farmout from Allied Petroleum Exploration Inc. that provides for the transfer to DNO Oman AS of a 75% participating interest (100% paying interest) in Block 36 ...

For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret. In 2002, ...