March 11, 2023 - Dust in Mongolia and China
Dust in Mongolia and China
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A long-distance dust storm rose from the Gobi Desert in early March
2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on
board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of line of
moving dust on March 10.
The light tan dust stretched more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from west
to east and rose from the arid desert regions near the border of
Mongolia (north) and northern China (south). The plumes thin toward
their southern edge, indicating that they are being carried by
northerly winds.
The Gobi Desert has a variety of landscapes, ranging from sand and bare
rock to grassy steppe. It is one of the Earth’s most abundant sources
of dust. Dust storms can be large, like this one, or small and may
appear at any time of the year, but occur most frequently in March and
April.
Image Facts
Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 3/10/2023
Resolutions: 1km (1.6 MB), 500m (4.6 MB), 250m (3.1 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-03-11
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