Saharan dust over Canary Islands

  • Credit

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

This series of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite shows a a dust storm from Africa’s Sahara Desert blowing out over the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-04-28