September 20, 2020 - Tibetan Plateau

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   Tibetan Plateau
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   On September 17, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging
   Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA's Terra satellite acquired a
   true-color image of the Tibetan Plateau.

   Sprawling over 2.5 million square kilometers (0.97 million square
   miles) between the Himalaya Mountains and the Taklimakan Desert, the
   Tibetan Plateau encompasses about one-quarter of the land area of
   China. The average elevation of over 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) lends
   it the nickname “The Roof of the World”.

   More than 1,500 lakes, both small and large, dot the landscape. The
   region also contains the world’s third-largest persistent ice mass,
   following only the Antarctic and Arctic. The lakes and glaciers give
   rise of many of Asia’s major rivers: the Brahmaputra, Indus, Ganges,
   Salween (Nu Jiang), Mekong (Lancang Jiang), Yangtze (Chang Jiang), and
   Yellow (Huang He).

   Image Facts
   Satellite:  Terra
   Date Acquired: 9/17/2020
   Resolutions:  1km (317.5 KB),  500m (1.1 MB),  250m (3.2 MB)
   Bands Used: 1,4,3
   Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



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