Sandy Siberia - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Sandy Siberia - related image preview

3000 x 3000
3 MB Bytes - JPEG

Sandy Siberia - related geotiff image preview placeholder

15 MB Bytes - GeoTIFF

Sandy Siberia - related kml preview placeholder

34 KB Bytes - KML/KMZ

Sandy Siberia - related image preview

720 x 720
JPEG

Sandy Siberia

The dunes of the Chara Sands seem out of place amidst taiga forests in Siberia. A glacial lake helped create this dune field thousands of years ago.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to Felix Bossert for being the quickest to solve the puzzler. Also congratulations to Robert Emberson for providing interesting details about geologic history of the dunes.

Published September 22, 2013
Data acquired July 11, 2013

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI