Empty Quarter - Satellite Photography Size:83 x 90 cm Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

140 square kilometers (2

circular shapes near the top of the image

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act

The island rises out of the water as sheer cliffs soar 500 to 88 feet above the sea surface

Empty Quarter - Satellite Photography Size:83 x 90 cm Joseph CottenWhite pinpricks of cloud cast ebony shadows on the Rub' al Khali, or Empty Quarter, near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The lines of wind sculpted sand are characteristic of immense sand deserts, or sand seas, and the Rub' al Khali is the largest desert of this type in the world. A highland ridge is just high enough to disturb the flow of the lines. In the center of that interruption lies the Saudi Arabian town of Sharurah.