NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured Qilian Mountains, China.
he Qilian Mountains, together with the Altyn-Tagh (Altun Shan) also known as Nan Shan, as it is to the south of Hexi Corridor, is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China. The range stretches from the south of Dunhuang some 800 km to the southeast, forming the northeastern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau and the southwestern border of the Hexi Corridor.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: NASA Earth’s Tweet
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