Dust Blown from Africa to Scandinavia

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite spied dust from a Saharan sand storm blowing several thousand kilometers over the North Atlantic and Europe in April 2011.

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NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen, using OMI aerosol data provided courtesy of the OMI Science Team. Caption by Michael Carlowicz

Published April 15, 2011
Data acquired April 5 - 10, 2011

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Aura > OMI