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Rain Soaks the Empty Quarter

Rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Mekunu dropped enough rain over the Arabian Peninsula to form lakes between the sand dunes in the Rub’ al-Khali.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 15, 2018
Data acquired May 13 - 29, 2018

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI