Snow in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Between the Aral Sea (upper left quadrant) and the rising foothills of the Tien Shan Mountains (lower right) is a depression called the Ptura Lowland, which stretches across Turkmenistan (bottom left), Uzbekistan (center), and Kazakhstan (top). In these images, the region is showing a stripe of snow.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-12-26