Dust and Clouds Dance Over the Sahara

A massive dust storm filled the skies over Libya in early September 2014.

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Astronaut photograph ISS040-E-90343 was acquired on September 8, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using an 80 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 40 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Mike Carlowicz. Thanks to Ralph Kahn, Leo Donner, Joe Prospero, and Matt McGill for image interpretation.

Published September 21, 2014
Data acquired September 8, 2014

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography