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Dust storm over South Korea

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

t-ascds-00001

Date

2008-07-05

Dust blowing off the Gobi desert eastward across the China toward the Pacific Ocean is a common event in April. The photograph, taken by astronauts on April 25, 1990, show a thick blanket of dust that entirely obscures the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. The dust is being transported from west (left) to east (right). The mountainous spine of the peninsula induces gravity waves in the dust cloud on the downwind (east) side.