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Great Sandy Scars

Great Sandy Scars
Image taken 8/22/2000

In a small corner of the vast Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia, large sand dunes --the only sand in this desert of scrub and rock -- appear as lines stretching from left to right. The light-colored fan shapes are scars from wildfires.

 

The Great Sandy Scars can be found on Landsat 7 WRS Path 105 Row 75, center: -21.68, 129.95.

The desert looks like sheets of rock that have a mottled
color.

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