Traveling by car to Eilat.
On the way, you have to drive hundreds of kilometers through the Israeli deserts of the Negev and Arava.
Contrary to popular belief that the desert is dead - it is not!
There is life in the desert, in spite of the harsh and hot climate there you can find lizards, snakes, insects, wild dogs and flying birds of prey. Over millions of years, wind, water and the sun have formed unique rocky landscapes. Iridescent sands in rainbow sunlight cast pictures of how other planets might look.
In the Negev desert there is an observatory, near the city of Mitzpe Ramon, about 200 km south of Tel Aviv.
The observatory is a professional astronomical research center from Tel Aviv University. It was opened in 1971.
In 2018, scientists conducted an experiment to simulate life on Mars.
Its members lived for four days in complete isolation in a mock station in the middle of the Negev desert.
Today, huge changes are taking place. Already, this region is becoming a giant technological, agricultural and tourist "greenhouse", where eco-villages, wineries, and resort centers are abundantly located. More recently, a new airport has opened in the southern part of the desert, which will soon become international. In the northern part of the Negev, there is one of the largest artificial forests of Yatir in our country, where more than four million different trees, including Jerusalem pine, oak, cypress and other species, currently grow. And yet in many parts of the desert retains its pristine majestic face.
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