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


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

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Terra > MODIS