A vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between the Kunlun and Altun mountain ranges that form the southern border of the Taklimakan Desert in China’s XinJiang Province.

Image taken by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite on May 2nd, 2002.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/USGS EROS Data Center

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