The Empty Quarter of the Arabian peninsula is one of the harshest terrains on the planet. It's the second largest desert in the world, with temperatures regularly exceeding 122 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Arabian Peninsula's Empty Quarter is one of the most brutal places on Earth. It's the second largest desert, and the daily high averages at around 117° F, and it has been known to reach 134 ...

The Empty Quarter (Rub al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid expanse. A recent study led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of ...

Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once home to a vast lake and rivers. Story by Rebecca Shavit • 18m. ... Their work focuses on the Rub’ al Khali Desert, or the Empty Quarter, ...

The Empty Quarter, or Rub' al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the world's largest deserts. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers -- mainly in Saudi Arabia -- it dominates the Arabian Peninsula ...

Rolling sand dunes in the expansive Rub’ al Khali desert on the southern Arabian Peninsula are pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite. Also known at the ‘Empty Quarter’, […] ...

A dangerously arid climate with no reliable water sources and an ever-shifting terrain, the Empty Quarter in the Arabian Peninsula is one of the most treacherous terrains man and machine could face.

This is a tiny fragment of the Empty Quarter, a sand sea larger than France. Ar Rub’ al Khali is an erg that stretches across four countries, covers most of the Arabian Peninsula, holds half as ...

A new road in the world’s largest sand desert will provide the first-ever land link between Saudi Arabia and Oman. By John Bayliss. At nearly 600,000km2, the sandy wilderness of Rub’ al Khali – also ...

Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once home to a vast lake and rivers. Rebecca Shavit. May 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM. ... Their work focuses on the Rub’ al Khali Desert, or the Empty Quarter, ...