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Precipitation is rare but cold is common in northwestern China. When precipitation falls, it comes as snow upon the dunes.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Advanced Land Imager data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published December 16, 2012
Data acquired November 27 - December 7, 2012

Source:
EO-1 > ALI