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Dust plume crossing Eastern Mediterranean Sea

This MODIS image from May 13, 2001, shows a thick, sinuous plume of dust obscuring the Nile Delta (bottom center) and stretching north across the Mediterranean Sea toward Turkey.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published January 28, 2002
Data acquired May 13, 2001

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Visible Earth