Dust in Northern China - related image preview

540 x 405
JPEG

Dust in Northern China - related image preview

5560 x 3780
3 MB - JPEG

Dust in Northern China

A late-spring dust storm skirted the China-Mongolia border on May 26, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust storm appears as a beige blur over a buff-colored landscape, and the plume remains close to but south of the border.

You can download a 250-meter-resolution dust storm KMZ file for use with Google Earth.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.

Published May 30, 2007
Data acquired May 26, 2007

Source:
Aqua > MODIS