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Dust Storm in Taklimakan Desert

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Sep 12, 2006
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2006-09-09 00:00:00
September 9, 2006

A dust storm struck the western portion of the Taklimakan Desert in western China on September 9, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture the same day. This image shows most of the Taklimakan Desert where a dust storm is pushing up from the south. Compared to the slightly darker tan of the desert floor, the dust appears as wisps of grey-beige.

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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC.

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