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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.


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