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Taklimakan Desert

The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China is a vast region of sand desert sitting in a depression between two high, rugged mountain ranges. Rolling sand dunes stretch out over several hundred thousand square miles in the Xinjiang Region of China.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Taklimakan Desert.

NASA Earth Observatory image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

Published December 3, 2001
Data acquired October 27, 2001

Source:: Terra > MODIS