Northwest African Dust Plume

  • Credit

    Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

A large swirling dust storm blows out over the Atlantic and the Canary Islands from western Africa while smaller dust plumes are also visible to the north in this SeaWiFS image.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    1998-12-14