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Cape Verde Under Dust

Winter winds, the harmattan, swept a cloud of dust out of West Africa and across the Atlantic.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Cape Verde Under Dust.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published March 5, 2014
Data acquired February 28, 2014