(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.
An ephemeral lake in Algeria last month. Image: Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, seen from space.
Southeastern Morocco's desert, part of the Sahara, is among the most arid places in the world and rarely experiences rain in late summer. In an area that gets an average of less than 250 ...