Dust Plume off the Coast of Egypt

Dwarfing the Nile, a river of dust flowed out of the deserts of northern Egypt on May 19, 2007. This image of the dust shows it spreading northward over the Mediterranean Sea from the sandy deserts that span the country. At the margins of the plume, ribbons and ripples of dust are translucent, allowing a glimpse of the desert and water beneath, but in the center, the cloud is opaque, revealing nothing of the surface below.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.

Published May 22, 2007
Data acquired May 19, 2007

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