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A swath of dust tops the snow in Central Asia, but the question is: what was the source of the dust, and how did it get there?


NASA image (first) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. NASA Earth Observatory images (second, third) by Joshua Stevens, based on data from SRTM/JPL. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 4, 2016
Data acquired January 27, 2016

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Aqua > MODIS