Journey with me to the Lut Desert, where the sun blazes and the ground radiates heat like nowhere else on our planet! This incredible place offers a unique glimpse into nature’s extremes.

The Lut Desert is in the southeast of the Islamic Republic of Iran, an arid continental subtropical area ... so it is in a rain shadow and, coupled with high temperatures, the climate is hyper-arid.

This striking false-color image shows massive wind-carved ridges and a "shadowy" patch of sand dunes at the heart of Iran's Lut ... the ground surface temperature of the Lut Desert reached a ...