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   August 14, 2022 - Southwest Egypt   
      
      Southwest Egypt   
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      Southwest Egypt, tucked along the border of Sudan (south) and Libya   
      (west), is a harsh land of sweeping sand and rugged mountains. On   
      August 4, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of   
      the spectacularly arid region.   
      
      Orange-tinted swaths are large deposits of sands and linear dunes,   
      which line up parallel to the path of the prevailing wind. Darker   
      colors are rocky outcroppings which rise above the Saharan sands. At   
      the point where the corners of Egypt, Sudan, and Libya meet (lower left   
      corner of the image) a tall, dark formation rises to about 2,000 meters   
      (7,000 feet) above sea level. The rocks in this region have been   
      estimated to be hundreds of millions of years old.   
      
      Just north of the border with Sudan, patches of green lie along a long,   
      lonely roadway that cuts through the desert. This is the remote   
      agricultural effort of Sharq El Owainat. It sits about 180 miles (290   
      km) from the nearest city and 130 miles (210 km) from evidence of   
      surface water, the Toshka lakes. Water to run this extensive cropland   
      comes from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer, which is buried beneath the   
      sand. It is drawn to the surface and piped to crops via center-pivot   
      irrigation, which is a method of watering crops that minimizes loss of   
      water. Viewed at high resolution (250m), the cropped areas can be seen   
      to consist of round circles, evidence of the center-pivot method, where   
      water is drawn upward into a well at the center of the circle, then is   
      sprayed or dripped from long arms that rotate around the center.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 8/4/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (95.9 KB),  500m (43.6 KB),  250m (135.5 KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-08-14   
       
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