Amedley of rock outcroppings; huge dunefields, and fierce summer heat, Iran's Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert, appears to be a quintessential desert. But this remote area also hosts a spectacle almost completely unknown in the world's other arid lands: the haboob. Not quite a sandstorm and not really a cloud, a haboob is created from a thunderstorm's turbulence, when fine, talcum-like dust is lifted into the air and remains suspended for hours, sometimes days. While few have witnessed this eerie phenomenon, the haboob drifted into the annals of history one spring evening in 1980.
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机译：阿米德利的岩石露头；伊朗的达什-卡维尔（Dasht-e Kavir）或大盐沙漠（Great Salt Desert）似乎是典型的沙漠。但是，这个偏远地区还拥有世界上其他干旱地区几乎完全不为人所知的奇观。不是沙尘暴，也不是真正的云，是雷暴的湍流产生的阴影，这是将细细，类似滑石粉的尘土举到空中并保持悬浮数小时，有时甚至数天。尽管很少有人目睹这种令人毛骨悚然的现象，但在1980年的一个春天傍晚，毒蛇就进入了历史志。
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