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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.
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