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Thick Dust Plumes Obscure Africa’s Coast

An extensive dust storm in late February carried debris over the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the Amazon Basin.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Aqua and Terra MODIS data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE), and the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center for Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership data from the VIIRS instrument. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Michael Carlowicz and Ellen Gray, with image interpretation from Lorraine Remer, Santiago Gassó, and Ralph Kahn.

Published March 4, 2015
Data acquired February 26 - 28, 2015

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response