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Massive Asian Dust Storm

On March 15, 2021, Japan's Himawari 8 satellite captured this view of a massive dust storm blanketing an area of northern China about twice the size of Texas. The dust storm — the worst in the region in a decade — triggered an air quality in Beijing, where it turned the skies a ghastly shade of orange.

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Uploaded on March 17, 2021