Badain Jaran Desert Map

The images shown here offer two views of the badain jaran desert as observed by the advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (aster) on nasa’s terra satellite. Located in the alxa plateau at about 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) above sea level it is listed as a subsection to the gobi desert. The top image is an elevation map made from the aster global digital elevation model (gdem), released in 2009.

The badain jaran desert is bounded to the north by the gobi desert; Diversity of bacteria and the. In many respects it owes a number of its features to melted groundwater.

Download scientific diagram | | map showing badain jaran desert location and tengger desert location.

Either from ningxia’s capital yinchuan via the inner mongolian town of bayan khot (also known as alashan zuoqi 阿拉善左旗 ), or from the gansu town of zhangye. It mainly belongs to alxa right banner, and the scenic area is about 75km away from badain jaran town, near zhangye (about 215km) and jinchang (about 125km), and alxa left banner is in the east. The base for visiting the desert is alashan youqi (阿拉善右旗), which is connected by a daily bus from bayan khot, or by two daily buses from zhangye. (a) distribution of studied lakes and groundwater level countours based on lake level altitude estimated using.