A dust
storm that arose on January 11 spread
toward the south and east the next day. The Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color
image on January 12, 2013.
By the time MODIS captured this scene, the dust stretched from
the coast of Pakistan to the Strait of Hormuz. Thick enough to hide the ground
below, a river of dust flowed southward past the Dasht-e Lut (Desert of
Emptiness) in southeastern Iran. West and south of that desert, mountain ridges
poked above the low-lying dust.
Dust storms rank among the leading natural hazards in Iran.
Other than the subtropical climate of the Caspian Sea coast, Iran is mostly
arid or semiarid. Less than 10 percent of the country’s land is arable.
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