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The Taklimakan Desert: A Factory for Dust Storms

Huge dust storms regularly blow across the arid Tarim Basin in western China.


NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published May 3, 2016
Data acquired May 1, 2016

Source:
Suomi NPP > VIIRS