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On March 5, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA�s Terra satellite acquired a striking true-color image of dust from the Gobi Desert blowing across northwestern China.

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English: On March 5, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA�s Terra satellite acquired a striking true-color image of dust from the Gobi Desert blowing across northwestern China.

The dust was lofted into the atmosphere by strong winds from a storm passing over the region on March 4 � 6. The storm dropped snow on parts of Mongolia and China while the wind whipped over the Gobi Desert. The dust was so thick that, according to local reports and photographs, the mid-afternoon sky turned red over parts of eastern Mongolia on March 4, forcing drivers to use headlights and citizens to cover their mouths with scarves to mitigate the effect of the severe dust storm. By March 5 most of the dust had travelled higher in the atmosphere and spread across parts of China (east) and southeastern Russia (north).

The Gobi Desert straddles the China-Mongolia border and is one of the world�s most abundant sources of dust. Dust storms tend to be most frequent in the unsettled weather of springtime, especially in March and April.
Date Taken on 5 March 2016
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Dust from the Gobi Desert over China (morning overpass) (direct link)

This image or video was catalogued by Goddard Space Flight Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: 2016-03-12.

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العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ magyar ∙ հայերեն ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Author Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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