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Spring Sandstorm Scours China

Few landmarks or topographic features are recognizable beneath a sheet of dust that covered the North China Plain on March 20, 2010.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Spring Sandstorm Scours China.

NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published March 23, 2010
Data acquired March 20, 2010