Saharan dust over Canary Islands

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

These images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite show dust storms from Africa’s Sahara Desert blowing out over the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Such dust events are not continual, though they are common.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-04-30