Dust storm in Taklimakan

April 18, 2003JPEG

April 18, 2003TIFF

Ringed by the Kunlun Mountains to the south and the Tien Shan Mountains to the north, a dust storm over the Taklimakan Desert is confined to the desert basin in this true-color Aqua MODIS image from April 18, 2003.

NASA Earth Observatory image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

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Instrument:: Aqua — MODIS

Dust storm in Taklimakan, April 2003

On April 17, 2003, a dust storm was brewing over the Taklimakan Desert in western China.

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Dust Storm over the Taklimakan Desert

On May 10, 2007, a dust storm covered most of the Taklimakan Desert in western China. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the storm at 05:50 UTC. The storm had intensified by the time the MODIS sensor on NASA’s Aqua satellite took another picture at 07:30 UTC.

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Dust storm in Taklimakan

Dust storm in Taklimakan, April 2003

Dust Storm over the Taklimakan Desert

Dust Storm over the Taklimakan Desert

Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert

Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert

Dust storm in Taklimakan

Dust storm in Taklimakan, April 2003

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