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Southwest Asia Dust Storm

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2004-06-15 00:00:00
June 15, 2004

A large dust storm (tan pixels) originating from the Sistan Basin, in western Afghanistan, continues to fill the skies over a large portion of southwestern Asia. The dust obscures much of Pakistan’s southern coast in this true-color image. This scene was acquired on June 15, 2004, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. The high-resolution image available here is 250 meters per pixel.

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NASA image by Jesse Allen, using data courtesy MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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