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Images & Animations
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Credit
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
It almost seems like a giant broom is sweeping the sands of western Africa’s Sahara Desert out of Mauritania and into the Atlantic Ocean in this MODIS image from May 6, 2002. Fires are burning in the savannas to the south, in (clockwise from left) Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and Guinea Bissau.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Visualization Date
2002-06-15