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Danakil Depression in Dallol, Ethiopia
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Landscape at Dallol volcano, Afar Region, Ethiopia. (Wikipedia)
Edward Burtynski, Camel Caravan #1, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, 2018 (Credit: Edward Burtsynky, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Flowers Gallery, London).
“The Danakil Depression is a vast area covering about 200km by 50km. It's known as one of the hottest places in the world and has been referred to as 'hell on Earth'. I've never worked in temperatures over 50C. At night, it was 40C – even 40 is almost unbearable. And we were sleeping outside because there are no buildings, there are no interior spaces.
“All our drone equipment wasn't working because we were 400 feet below sea level. So the drone GPS was saying: 'You're not supposed to be here. You're at the bottom of the ocean'. We had to turn off our GPS because we couldn't get it to calibrate, it didn't know where it was.”
This is one place on Earth where life can't live. It is totally lifeless. Without life. Life has ceased to be.
Dallol, a geothermal field in Ethiopia, is full of acidic, salty and hot ponds that don't allow life to form.
A lot like high school.
Etiopia-Dancalia-Dallol-sulphureus fumaroles by Donatella Venturi
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The colourful hydrothermal Dallol terraces, found 127 meters below sea level. The colours change from white and lime green to yellow, orange and red, due to the inorganic iron oxidation. Life is yet to be found surviving within these hyper-acidic 108°C pools.
Dallol, The Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
