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Dust Storm over the Aral Sea
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Dust Storm over the Aral Sea

Published Apr 2, 2008

Dust and Haze

Aral Sea Dust Storm
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Aral Sea Dust Storm

Acquired March 26, 2010, this natural-color image shows a plume rising from the eastern lobe of the South Aral Sea. The dust blows toward the southeast, along the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border.

Published Mar 30, 2010

Atmosphere Land Dust and Haze

Dust Storm, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan
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Dust Storm, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan

stronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this image of a major dust storm (image center and right) along the east side of the Aral Sea while passing over central Asia in the spring of 2007. The white, irregular lines along the bottom of the image are salt and clay deposits on the present coastline. The day that the ISS crew shot the image, winds were blowing from the west (lower left).

Published Nov 5, 2007

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Aral Sea, 2000-2008
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Aral Sea, 2000-2008

A Soviet-era plan to turn the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan into fertile cropland resulted in the near-total diversion of the water that once fed the Aral Sea. Prior to the scheme, two rivers—the Amudar’ya in the south and the Syrdar’ya in the north—flowed out of distant mountains and pooled in a desert basin in what is now southern Kazakhstan and northern Uzbekistan. The irrigation project began in the mid-1900s, and by 1960, the sea had already begun to dry out.

Published Aug 26, 2008

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Dust Storm over the Aral Sea
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Dust Storm over the Aral Sea

Published Sep 1, 2006

Dust and Haze

A Dusty Day Over the Aral Sea
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A Dusty Day Over the Aral Sea

The shrinking of this once-vast inland lake means winds more frequently pick up dust from the exposed lakebed.

Published Mar 25, 2020

Image of the Day Land Water Dust and Haze

Dust Storm in Central Asia
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Dust Storm in Central Asia

Published May 8, 2007

Dust and Haze

Dust Storm over the Aral Sea
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Dust Storm over the Aral Sea

This true-color image shows a dust storm blowing over the desiccated Southern Aral Sea in late June 2009. Dust blows over southern Kazakhstan and across Uzbekistan.

Published Jun 30, 2009

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