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Dust Billows Over Iran

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Dec 12, 2016
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Dust Billows Over Iran
December 10, 2016

A dust plume hundreds of kilometers across blew over southeastern Iran on December 10, 2016. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image the same day.

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NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC . Caption by Pola Lem.

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