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Data acquired May 19, 2005 1100 x 1400 305 KB - JPEG
Data acquired May 19, 2005 2200 x 2800 1 MB - JPEG
Data acquired May 19, 2005 4400 x 5600 3 MB - JPEG
A veil of light yellow dust hangs over Cape Verde Islands and the Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of north Africa. The winds that blew this dust out of the Sahara Desert were abating on May 19, 2005, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image, and the dust seen here is much lighter than it was a few days earlier. In the top of the image, the clouds are arranged in fanciful swirls. These swirls trace out the eddies that were created when air passed over the Canary Islands, beyond the northern edge of the image.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published May 20, 2005 Data acquired May 19, 2005