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Spring Greening in the Taklamakan Desert

Even in China’s largest, driest, and hottest desert, vegetation sprouts in the spring.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Spring Greening in the Taklamakan Desert.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published May 5, 2020
Data acquired February 23 - April 29, 2020