Dust Tempete on South Korea - Dust storm over South Korea - Dust storm from...

Dust Tempete on South Korea - Dust storm over South Korea - Dust storm from the Gobi Desert crossing China to cover half of the Corean Peninsula. Image obtained from Space Shuttle Discovery on 25 April 1990. Dust blowing off the Gobi desert eastward across the China toward the Pacific Ocean is a common event in April. The photograph, taken by astronauts on April 25, 1990, show a thick blanket of dust that entirely obscures the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. The dust is being transported from west (left) to east (right). The mountainous spine of the peninsula induces gravity waves in the dust cloud on the downwind (east) side