Space Daily September 16, 2026 • 18:30

A pond in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression has a measured salinity of 433 grams per kilogram — roughly twelve times saltier than the open ocean and saltier than the Dead Sea — sitting inside one of the hottest, most hostile landscapes on the planet - Space Daily

Scientists have found a pond so saturated with salt that nothing we know should survive in it—yet life does.

Near the base of the Dallol hydrothermal field in Ethiopia’s Afar region sits a pond barely 60 meters long, its water tinted pale yellow by dissolved iron. Chemists who sampled it found a total disso… [+6292 chars]

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A pond in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression has a measured salinity of 433 grams per kilogram — roughly twelve times saltier than the open ocean and saltier than the Dead Sea — sitting inside one of the hottest, most hostile landscapes on the planet - Space Daily

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