The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over to central western Namibia, an area surrounding the Namib Naukluft Park, in this image taken on 28 January 2016. The National Park includes part of the Namib – ...

A namaqua chameleon snags a tasty beetle larva in the Namib Desert, Namibia. Photograph by Beverly Houwing, Beverly Hills, CA Walking on a sand dune, Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia.

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Namib Desert in western Namibia. At 55 million years old, Namib is considered the oldest desert on Earth. In this image, captured on 27 ...