Large -- Medium At the Tozeur airport. Saddam Hussein had these two 747's flown out of Iraq prior to the first Gulf War to protect them from American attack. The Tunisians are a bit embarassed about them. They tried to get Iraq to take them back, but the new Iraqi government disavowed responsibility for them. They're in a pretty bad state of repair at the moment, and would cost a fortune just to get flying again. | |
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Large -- Medium Some bedoin camels. | |
Large -- Medium Taking a look at some eroding Pleistocene lake deposits. | |
Large -- Medium Gian-Gabriele and Vicenzo. | |
Large -- Medium Cool gypsum deposits sticking out of the ground like fins. | |
Large -- Medium Gullies. | |
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movie Four-wheeling across the Sahara! | |
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Large -- Medium The camel's neck formation. | |
Large -- Medium Totally Tattooine. | |
Large -- Medium Jani and Ralph. | |
Large -- Medium More great yardangs near an old Star Wars set. | |
Large -- Medium This set was actually buried by an advancing Barchan dune, and then exhumed as it exited the back side of the dune a few years ago. | |
Large -- Medium As you can see, having been buried under 10 meters of sand has left it in less than pristine condition. | |
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Large -- Medium Jani, I, and Ralph holding faux lightsabers that I haven't gotten around to inserting digitally yet. | |
Large -- Medium The exhumed set as seen from on top of the dune that had buried it. Yardangs and vehicles in background. | |
Large -- Medium Hiking up a dune to see the Mos Espa set. | |
Large -- Medium Mos Espa, viewed from a barchan dune that will bury it in the next decade or so. | |
movie Mos Espa set video. | |
Large -- Medium Moisture vaporators? | |
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Large -- Medium Me in front of one of the town's huts (not to say, Hutts). | |
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Large -- Medium Mos Espa -- you will find only one more wretched hive of scum and villiany. | |
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Large -- Medium Out on the streets of Mos Espa. | |
Large -- Medium Each building had a wonderfully ornate and unique door. | |
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Large -- Medium Okay, back to the sand. This barchan edge is a bit hardened (indurated). | |
Large -- Medium That hardening prserves some of the bedding as the lee face is exhumed and exposed. | |
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Large -- Medium The interdunes look to have a different spectrum from the dunes -- some clear evaporite deposits in some places. | |
movie Jani kicks sand down a barchan. The stuff is solid enough that it just slides down on top of the indurated dune below, and does not initiate a dry flow like on less solid dunes. | |
Large -- Medium Back on the edge of the Chott el Jerid. | |
Large -- Medium These cool mounts aren't usually in water! | |
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