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Limits RegistryA survey of seven years of NASA MODIS satellite data found a land-surface temperature of 70.7°C in the Lut Desert (Dasht-e Lut) of Iran in 2005 — the highest skin temperature in that record, with the Lut topping the annual maximum in five of the seven years. Later analyses using longer records have reported still-higher skin temperatures in the Lut and the Sonoran Desert, so the figure should be treated as a documented floor rather than a settled maximum.
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A survey of seven years of NASA MODIS satellite data found a land-surface temperature of 70.7°C in the Lut Desert (Dasht-e Lut) of Iran in 2005 — the highest skin temperature in that record, with the Lut topping the annual maximum in five of the seven years. Later analyses using longer records have reported still-higher skin temperatures in the Lut and the Sonoran Desert, so the figure should be treated as a documented floor rather than a settled maximum.
The highest ground (land-skin) temperature retrieved from satellite thermal-infrared observations, as distinct from shaded near-surface air temperature.
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Limits Registry. LR-HIGHEST-LAND-SKIN-TEMP-SATELLITE. Highest land-surface temperature measured by satellite. 2026.