BigPic: From Above, These Saharan Mountains Look Like Abstract Art

The Tibesti Mountains, Chad ESAEnvisat captures a beautiful palette (and not much else) in North Africa's 'Mountains of Hunger.' At ground level the Sahara desert often seems somewhat monochromatic, but from above that picture changes completely. The Tibesti Miountains, captured above by the European Space Agency's Envisat, are a mostly inactive volcanic range in the central Sahara, covering some 62,000 square miles of Chad and parts of southern Libya. They're also really, really pretty when photographed from space. [ESA]

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