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Dust over Syria

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May 11, 2010
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Dust over Syria
May 11, 2010

Dust blankets Syria’s Fertile Crescent in this natural-color image from May 11, 2010. The pale cloud of dust masks the farm-lined Euphrates River in the right half of the image and extends to the Turkish border. The dust is blowing east toward Iraq.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image on the afternoon of May 11. The large image is the highest-resolution version of the image. Daily images of Syria are available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team.

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NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

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