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Rare Snow in the African Desert

Orange sands in Morocco and Algeria got a white dusting just before the solstice and Christmas.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Rare Snow in the African Desert.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published December 22, 2016
Data acquired December 19, 2016