Dust Storm off Egypt

  • Credit

    Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

This true-color image of Saharan Desert dust blowing northeastward from Libya and Egypt across the Mediterranean Sea was acquired on February 5, 2003, by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) aboard the OrbView-2 satellite.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
  • Visualization Date

    2003-02-05