Saharan dust off West Africa

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Saharan dust is billowing out over western Africa and yellowing the skies over the Atlantic Ocean and the Cape Verde Islands (usually bottom left) in these true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images from January-March 2003. In some images, fires have been detected in West Africa and are marked with red dots.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-02-12