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The sky is usually clear above the desert, and the sunshine duration is extremely high everywhere in the Sahara. Most of the desert has more than 3,600 hours of bright sunshine per year (over 82% of daylight hours), and a wide area in the eastern part has over 4,000 hours of bright sunshine per year (over 91% of daylight hours). The highest values are very close to the theoretical maximum value. A value of 4300 hours (98%) of the time would be [ clarification needed] recorded in Upper Egypt ( Aswan, Luxor) and in the Nubian Desert ( Wadi Halfa). [20] The annual average direct solar irradiation is around 2,800 kWh/(m 2 year) in the Great Desert. The Sahara has a huge potential for solar energy production. Sand dunes in the Algerian Sahara Libya's Qaddafi taps 'fossil water' to irrigate desert farms". CSMonitor.com. 23 August 2010. Archived from the original on 19 January 2022 . Retrieved 19 July 2021. Sereno PC, Garcea EA, Jousse H, Stojanowski CM, Saliège JF, Maga A, etal. (2008). "Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change". PLOS ONE. 3 (8): e2995. Bibcode: 2008PLoSO...3.2995S. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002995. PMC 2515196. PMID 18701936. Night-blooming desert flowers, like sacred datura and evening primrose, have adapted to the harsh desert environment. They do this by conserving water and avoiding the scorching daytime heat. Atlantic Coastal Desert – a desert lying along the western coast of the Sahara Desert and occupies a narrow strip in Western Sahara and MauritaniaThe largest desert in the world is also the coldest. Almost the entire continent of Antarctica is a polar desert, experiencing little precipitation. Few organisms can withstand the freezing, dry climate of Antarctica. In the northern hemisphere, a famous star pattern called the Big Dipper looks like a ladle or a dipper. You can usually see it all year round.

WPS. "Interesting Facts About the Sahara Desert". www.globaladventurechallenges.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023 . Retrieved 16 April 2023. Owls fly silently with special feathers, a vital desert advantage. Their big, forward-facing eyes see well in low light, spotting prey like rodents and insects. Owls also have excellent hearing. Their unique facial discs assist them in capturing sounds and locating targets just by listening. Wade, Lizzie (2015). "Drones and Satellites Spot Lost Civilizations in Unlikely Places". Science. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa7864. English-Arabic online dictionary". Online.ectaco.co.uk. 28 December 2006. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009 . Retrieved 12 June 2010. Danakil Desert – a desert lying in the Afar Triangle and covering northeastern Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, southern Djibouti and northwesternmost SomaliaHoll, Augustin F.C. (2009). "Coping with uncertainty: Neolithic life in the Dhar Tichitt-Walata, Mauritania, (ca. 4000–2300 BP)". Comptes Rendus Geoscience. 341 (8–9): 703–712. Bibcode: 2009CRGeo.341..703H. doi: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.04.005. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018 . Retrieved 24 May 2021. Thomas, B. (1993). "Ubar—the Atlantis of the sands of rub' Al Khali". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. Finally, ensure your focus is sharp by disabling autofocus and manually adjusting your lens to infinity.