Dust Obscures the Red Sea

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of airborne dust on March 19, 2017. Winds carried the plume east from Africa.

• References and Related Reading

• NASA Earth Observatory (2016, June 15) Dust Over the Red Sea.
• NASA Earth Observatory (2007, June 13) Dust Plume Over the Red Sea.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published March 22, 2017
Data acquired March 19, 2017

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

MODIS Rapid Response