They say that if you wait long enough, the desert sands will reveal the answer in the end. This is the story of three adventurers' daring attempt to crack the Sahara's greatest mystery and to establish once and for all whether the world's largest meteorite lies beneath the shifting dunes of Mauritania. Natural History Museum experts Dr. Sara Russell and Dr. Phil Bland team up with policeman and enthusiast Bob Warr in their attempt to find the Chinguetti meteorite, a vast rock from outer space said to have landed in the Sahara Desert and thought to weigh a million tons.

They say that if you wait long enough, the desert sands will reveal the answer in the end. This is the story of three adventurers' daring attempt to crack the Sahara's greatest mystery and to establish once and for all whether the world's largest meteorite lies beneath the shifting dunes of Mauritania. Natural History Museum experts Dr. Sara Russell and Dr. Phil Bland team up with policeman and enthusiast Bob Warr in their attempt to find the Chinguetti meteorite, a vast rock from outer space said to have landed in the Sahara Desert and thought to weigh a million tons.