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NASA Earth Observatory Collection
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NASA Earth Observatory Collection
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Dust in Afghanistan
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Dust in Afghanistan
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Across a wide portion of southwestern Asia, winds were whipping across deserts, sending a froth of dust into the skies on April 8, 2005. The wind raised particularly thick streamers of dust from the surfaces of the Margo Desert in southern Afghanistan and the Thar Desert, which straddles the border between Pakistan and India. Like an atmospheric alter ego of the Indus River, an airborne river of dust flows southward from the Thar Desert and out over the Arabian Sea. This image of the event was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MO DIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC.
Description
Across a wide portion of southwestern Asia, winds were whipping across deserts, sending a froth of dust into the skies on April 8, 2005. The wind raised particularly thick streamers of dust from the surfaces of the Margo Desert in southern Afghanistan and the Thar Desert, which straddles the border between Pakistan and India. Like an atmospheric alter ego of the Indus River, an airborne river of dust flows southward from the Thar Desert and out over the Arabian Sea. This image of the event was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MO DIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC. Description
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Terra- MODIS
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Terra- MODIS
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Earth
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Earth
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Terra
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Terra
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Indus
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Indus
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Arabian Sea
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Arabian Sea
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Pakistan
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Pakistan
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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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April 8, 2005
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April 8, 2005
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2005
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2005
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UID:
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SPD-ETOBS-12814
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