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Shrinking Lake Ebinur

Declining water levels in this saline lake in northwestern China have exposed playa prone to producing dust storms.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon and Adam Voiland, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published November 25, 2014
Data acquired October 20, 2013

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI