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Dust Storm over Syria, Turkey, and Iraq

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May 14, 2007
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2007-05-13 00:00:00
May 13, 2007

On May 13, 2007, a dust storm formed over the borders of Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture the same day.

This image shows a beige dust plume, thick in the west where it is partially obscured by clouds, and thinner in the east. Besides the dust and clouds overhead, the image shows some details of the underlying landscape, including the relative greenness of Turkey compared to its arid neighbors. The image also shows the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.

You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of the dust storm 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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