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Where China and Kazakhstan Meet

People often say that borders are not visible from space. But the line between Kazakhstan and China couldn't be clearer if it were drawn on the sand.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 16, 2014
Data acquired September 9, 2013

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI