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Desert Patterns
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Desert Patterns - April 13th, 2003 Description: Seen through the "eyes" of a satellite sensor, ribbons of Saharan sand dunes seem to glow in sunset colors. These patterned stripes are part of Erg Chech, a desolate sand sea in southwestern Algeria, Africa, where the prevailing winds create an endlessly shifting collage of large, linear sand dunes. The term "erg" is derived from an Arabic word for a field of sand dunes.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineDesert Patterns. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001945.
