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NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michon Scott.
Dust plumes blew over southwestern Asia at the end of May 2011. On May 31, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of dust plumes blowing over the borders of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The thickest plume originates in eastern Iran. The opaque plume blows toward the south-southeast, passing over parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. To the east, another plume blows in the same direction. Farther east (upper right quadrant of the image), a camel-colored, unevenly shaped plume appears to float over Afghanistan.
Dust plumes in this region often originate from dry lakebed sediments along the Iran-Afghanistan border, and from sandy deserts in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Terra - MODISData Date:
May 31, 2011Visualization Date:
June 1, 2011
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