Saharan Dust Heading for Europe - related image preview

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Saharan Dust Heading for Europe

A substantial dust plume drifted over the Atlantic Ocean, with some of the airborne grains steering toward the northeast.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 18, 2021
Data acquired February 18, 2021

Sources:
DSCOVR > EPIC
NOAA-20 > VIIRS