Empty Quarter - Satellite Photography Size:83 x 90 cm Breakfast at Tiffany's is based

Breakfast at Tiffany's is based on Truman Capote's novel

The island rises out of the water as sheer cliffs soar 500 to 88 feet above the sea surface

and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century

circular shapes near the top of the image

The prominent crimson streak in the center of this image represents the remains of an extensive lava and mud flow

Empty Quarter - Satellite Photography Size:83 x 90 cm Breakfast at Tiffany's is basedWhite pinpricks of cloud cast ebony shadows on the Rub' al Khali, or Empty Quarter, near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The lines of wind sculpted sand are characteristic of immense sand deserts, or sand seas, and the Rub' al Khali is the largest desert of this type in the world. A highland ridge is just high enough to disturb the flow of the lines. In the center of that interruption lies the Saudi Arabian town of Sharurah.