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There are other places similar to Death Valley that may be as hot, such as Iran’s Lut Desert, but like Death Valley are uninhabited so no one measures there, Burt said.

But with its “consistently hot footprint over a large area,” says Mildrexler, who was not involved in the present study, “the Lut Desert has really emerged as the hottest place on Earth.”

In springtime, when the rain gathers into pools in Iran’s Dasht-e Lut Desert, the sand comes alive.

They searched Iran’s vast Lut Desert until they finally found what seemed to be the right spot, a Mars-like dead zone regarded as one of the hottest and driest places on Earth.

My particular favorite, a pleasant 13-night trek through Iran's Lut Desert, featuring "terrain so hostile it's incapable of sustaining flora or fauna."