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Kashgar, China

Uplift and erosion sculpted the landscape around an oasis city in western China.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Kathryn Hansen based on image analysis by Doug Burbank (University of California Santa Barbara) and Jessica Thompson Jobe (University of Texas El Paso).

Published January 14, 2017
Data acquired July 23, 2014

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Terra > ASTER