Dust in the American Southwest

On March 31, 2017, thick plumes of dust stretched hundreds of kilometers from northern Mexico into the U.S. states of Texas and New Mexico. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image that morning. While the dust passed over White Sands National Monument, the source appeared to mainly be farmland near the Mexican town of Janos.

• References

• Gill, T. via Twitter (2017, March 31) White Sands, Brown Dust. Accessed April 5, 2017.
• Gill, T. via Twitter (2017, March 31) El Paso still getting dusted. Accessed April 5, 2017.
• NASA Earth Observatory (2009, June 27) White Sands National Monument.
• NASA Earth Observatory (2012, April 14) White Sands National Monument.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published April 4, 2017
Data acquired March 31, 2017

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

MODIS Rapid Response