The patchy, elongated, light-colored feature in the foreground (parallel to the mountain range) is the northernmost of the Dasht dry lakes that stretch southward 300 kilometers (190 mi).

The eastern part of Dasht-e Lut is a low plateau covered with salt flats with lowest elevations around 110 m above sea level (30.398609 N, 58.493041 E).

In contrast, the center has been sculpted by the wind into a series of parallel ridges and furrows, extending over 150 km (93 mi) and reaching 75 metres (246 ft) in height.

Recently, an extensive archaeological survey was conducted on the eastern flank of Kerman range and close to the western fringes of Lut Desert.

[12][13][14][18][19] The precision of these measurements was between 0.5 K and 1 K.[20][21] The highest land surface temperature in Dasht-e Lut is recorded at Gandom Beryan, a large plateau covered in dark lava, approximately 480 square kilometres (190 sq mi) in area.