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Monday, 12 November 2012 00:00
The Shrinking Aral Sea (Earth Observatory)
Although irrigation made the desert bloom, it devastated the Aral Sea. This series of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite documents the changes (2000-2012).
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