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Sandy Siberia

The dunes of the Chara Sands seem out of place amidst taiga forests in Siberia. A glacial lake helped create this dune field thousands of years ago.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Sandy Siberia.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to Felix Bossert for being the quickest to solve the puzzler. Also congratulations to Robert Emberson for providing interesting details about geologic history of the dunes.

Published September 22, 2013
Data acquired July 11, 2013

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI