Saharan Dust over the Mediterranean Sea

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

On July 16, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image of a river of Saharan dust streaming out over the Mediterranean Sea and northeastward to Italy.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2003-07-17