NASA: It is happening now - Está sucediendo ahora - 12-04-11 - Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert - China
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Open your mind, your heart to other cultures
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Abra su mente, su corazón a otras culturas
You will be a better person
Usted será una mejor persona
RM
Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert
Dust blew over the Taklimakan Desert for the third consecutive day on March 14, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. A nearly uniform veil of translucent beige hovers over the desert, especially its western half. The thin haze of dust along the desert’s western margins—with well-defined valleys discernible underneath the dust—suggests that shifting wind patterns blew some of the dust back toward the west after it was airborne.
The abundant sand dunes of the Taklimakan Desert provide ample material for dust storms. The dust often blows eastward over China, sometimes traveling as far as the Pacific Ocean.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott.
- Instrument:
- Aqua - MODIS
Dust stirred in the Taklimakan Desert on March 12, 2011 as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead. This natural-color image shows pinpoint plumes along the desert’s western margin fanning out toward the east-southeast. Over the eastern half of the desert, clouds float overhead, casting dark shadows onto the sea of dust below.
The Taklimakan Desert sits in the Tarim Basin, located between the mountain ranges of the Tien Shan (or Tian Shan) in the north, and the Kunlun Shan in the south. The Taklimakan is the largest and hottest desert in China. Isolated from the Asian monsoon and Arctic storms, the desert is deprived of moisture. Largely devoid of vegetation, sand dunes cover some 85 percent of the desert floor.
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References
- World Wildlife Fund, McGinley, M. (2007). Taklimakan Desert. Encyclopedia of Earth. Accessed March 14, 2011.
NASA image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott.
- Instrument:
- Aqua - MODIS
NASA: It is happening now - Está sucediendo ahora - 12-04-11 - Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert - China
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una casa abierta a todas las culturas, religiones y países construyendo una nueva cultura de la tolerancia, la mente y el corazón abiertos para la paz, el amor y el respeto humano.
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