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Dust Storm, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan
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Published November 5, 2007
stronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this image of a major dust storm (image center and right) along the east side of the Aral Sea while passing over central Asia in the spring of 2007. The white, irregular lines along the bottom of the image are salt and clay deposits on the present coastline. The day that the ISS crew shot the image, winds were blowing from the west (lower left).
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Winds Blow Smoke in California
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Rain from Tropical Storm Noel
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Tropical Storm Noel
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Floods in Southeastern Mexico
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Curonian Spit
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Fires in Southern California
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Unnamed Tropical Cyclone 05A approaching the Arabian Peninsula
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Tropical Storm Noel (16L) over the Bahamas
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Dust Plumes off Libya
Two-toned dust plumes blew northward off the coast of Libya. While plumes in the west are beige, the plumes in the east are distinctly darker. The differences in color can be traced to the plumes’s varied origins.
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Dust off Iran and Pakistan
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Burn scars from California fires (false color)
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