ESA - Earth from Space: Cradle of humankind - European Space …
The lighter-coloured area to the east is known as the Afar Triangle and includes the Danakil Desert. Extremely hot and dry, the deepest point in this volcano-ridden depression lies 100 m below sea level. Continuous volcanic activity produces hot springs and major minerals.
Afar Triangle - Wikipedia
The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar triple junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The region has disclosed fossil specimens of the very earliest hominins ; that is, the earliest of the human clade, and it is thought by some paleontologists to be the cradle ...
Volcanic activity and hazard in the East African Rift Zone
2021年11月25日 · a Distribution of volcanoes in the East African Rift, Afar Triangle and Arabian Peninsula from 86. Symbol shape denotes whether deformation has been reported (square) or not (triangle) from 6.
Afar Triangle, Ethiopia - NASA
2008年3月23日 · This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) thermal-infrared composite image, the first high spatial resolution multi-spectral thermal infrared data from the satellite, is of an area in Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle. It shows color variations which are mainly due to rock and soil composition differences; temperature ...
Afar Depression, Ethiopia - NASA Earth Observatory
This meeting place is known to geologists as the Afar Triple Junction; the central meeting place for the three pieces of Earth’s crust is around Lake Abbe, just to the south of the area shown in this image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite.
Pick of the pics – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2010年9月13日 · The images above and below show Afar from afar — that is, the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia, a fascinating place. The tectonic plates underneath the region are very active, moving in three different directions, which has caused the Afar region to be stretched thin and torn.
Deconstructing Tectonics: Ten Animated Explorations
2020年9月14日 · The Afar Triangle lies at the triple junction between the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the East African Rift. In the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden the rift has evolved to form a narrow ocean basin. The other two arms of the triple junction in Africa show the full rift-to-drift cycle, resulting in the formation of oceanic lithosphere in the Red Sea ...
LP DAAC - The Afar Triangle: 15 Years of ASTER Imagery - USGS
Fifteen years ago this month the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) sensor onboard NASA’s Terra satellite began returning images. The first image from ASTER’s thermal infrared (TIR) subsystem was captured on March 3, 2000 of the western edge of the volcanic Afar Triangle in Ethiopia (see image to the right).
The Afar Triangle: 15 Years of ASTER Imagery | Terra
Fifteen years ago this month the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) sensor onboard NASA’s Terra satellite began returning images. The first image from ASTER’s thermal infrared (TIR) subsystem was captured on March 3, 2000 of the western edge of the volcanic Afar Triangle in Ethiopia (see image to the right).
ESA - The Horn of Africa - European Space Agency
2012年2月17日 · This Envisat image of the Horn of Africa shows parts of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and, to the northeast across the Red Sea, a portion of Yemen’s west coast. The lighter-coloured area to the east is known as the Afar Triangle and includes the Danakil Desert. Further west we can see the somewhat heart-shaped Lake Tana.