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   April 17, 2023 - Dust over the Sea of Okhotsk   
      
      Dust over the Sea of Okhotsk   
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      After choking parts of China and Japan on April 11, 2023, Gobi dust   
      continued traveling northeastward, sweeping over the Sea of Okhotsk on   
      April 13. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on   
      NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this true-color image of the cloud of   
      dust on that same day.   
      
      The massive cloud of dust floats in the atmosphere east of both   
      Hokkaido, the second-largest island of Japan, and Russia's Sakhalin   
      Island. Tan dust also floats over the Kuril Islands, which stretch   
      between Russia and Japan. It also tucks under a large white cloud bank.   
      Additional satellite imagery shows that dust stretches several hundred   
      kilometers eastward to appear on the far side of the cloud bank, but   
      that is not visible in this image.   
      
      Large dust storms from the Gobi Desert have swept across Eastern Asia   
      at least four times since March 10. This dust likely rose from the   
      desert between April 8 and 10, when the region was scoured by severe   
      winds. As the dust cloud moved over China and South Korea on April 11,   
      air quality indexes registered extremely unhealthy particulate levels   
      in parts of both countries.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 4/13/2023   
      Resolutions:  1km (215.2 KB),  500m (667.4 KB),  250m (1.9 MB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MO'DIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-04-17   
       
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