Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The image is available in additional resolutions.
Thick clouds of dust obscured the Persian Gulf from view on January 7, 2005.
Tan clouds of airborne dust obscured the Persian Gulf when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flew overhead on NASA’s Terra satellite to collect this image on January 7, 2005. The dust is blowing out of Iraq and Iran in the northwest where winds were reported to be blowing at 13 kilometers per hour (8 mph) near the coast. MODIS also detected a few scattered fires in the region, which have been marked with red dots.
Metadata
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Sensor
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Start Date
2005-01-07 -
Event Start Date
2005-01-07 -
NH Image ID
12661 -
NH Event ID
10575 -
NH Posting Date
2005-01-07
