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Waw an Namus, a dormant volcano in Libya, left a smear of basaltic tephra and ash in the middle of the Sahara Desert.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published June 16, 2015
Data acquired May 29, 2015

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI