A part of El Djouf region viewed from space during the Apollo 9 mission. To the right are rock outcrops in western Mali, and to the left are dunes in eastern Mauritania.
El Djouf (Arabic: الجوف) is a desert, an arid natural region of sand dunes and rock salt which covers northeastern Mauritania and part of northwestern Mali.[1] El Djouf is a part of the Sahara Desert in the north. El Djouf is 320 meters (1,050 feet) above sea level.
A meteorite of a rare type of carbonaceous chondrite was found in El Djouf in October 1989.[2]
^El-Djouf - Encyclopædia Britannica
^El Djouf 001, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Meteoritical Bulletin Database
ElDjouf (Arabic: الجوف) is a desert, an arid natural region of sand dunes and rock salt which covers northeastern Mauritania and part of northwestern...
Juby, south to a large plain which Arab traders had identified to him as ElDjouf. Mackenzie believed this vast region was up to 61 metres (200 ft) below...
Juby south to a large plain which Arab traders had identified to him as ElDjouf. Mackenzie believed this vast region was up to 61 metres (200 ft) below...
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mid-1960s. The plateaus gradually descend toward the northeast to the barren ElDjouf, or "Empty Quarter," a vast region of large sand dunes that merges into...
peak. The plateaus gradually descend toward the northeast to the barren ElDjouf, or "Empty Quarter," a vast region of large sand dunes that merges into...
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