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Dust in Northern China

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May 30, 2007
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2007-05-26 00:00:00
May 26, 2007

A late-spring dust storm skirted the China-Mongolia border on May 26, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust storm appears as a beige blur over a buff-colored landscape, and the plume remains close to but south of the border.

You can download a 250-meter-resolution dust storm KMZ file for use with Google Earth.

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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.

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