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English: Strong winds blew across the Gobi Desert on March 4-5, 2016, kicking up a massive dust storm. On March 8, four days after the start of the storm, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA�s Terra satellite flew over eastern Russia and captured this true-color image of dust blowing across the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kuril Islands.

The Gobi Desert sits on 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.

The Kuril Islands are a volcanic archipelago that run from Japan, in the south, to Kamchatka, Russia. To reach the Kuril Islands, the Gobi Desert dust crossed eastern Mongolia, northern China and southeastern Russia, a trip of about 3,770 km (2,343 mi).
Date Taken on 8 March 2016
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This image or video was catalogued by Goddard Space Flight Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: 2016-03-20.

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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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