Dust Storm over Eastern Australia

  • Credit

    Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), flying aboard the OrbView-2 satellite, captured this view of what appears to be a large dust storm (light brown pixels) blowing across eastern Australia on October 23, 2002. The smoke plumes from a number of wildfires burning in the region are also visible.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS
  • Visualization Date

    2002-10-23