Credit:
NASA images courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michon Scott.
In late February 2012, a dust storm in the Texas Panhandle dropped visibility to near-zero, and caused numerous accidents and two deaths, according to news station WJLA. The dust swept from eastern New Mexico through Texas, forming a giant arc north of Lubbock.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on February 20, 2012. The dust is thickest north of Lubbock, but some dust hovers over that city as well.
-
References
- WJLA. (2012, February 21). Dust storm big enough to be seen from space over Texas. Accessed February 23, 2012.
Images & Animations
File
File Dimensions
- 720x480
- JPEG
- 2000x1600
- JPEG 529 KB
- GeoTIFF 5 MB
- KMZ 2 KB
This image originally appeared on the Earth Observatory. Click here to view the full, original record.
Metadata
Sensor:
Aqua - MODISData Date:
February 20, 2012Visualization Date:
February 23, 2012
Categories
Subscribe to the RSS Feed
