Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images of this region.
Thick plumes of dust blew off the east coast of Sudan, over the Red Sea, in late June and early July 2006.
Just days after a June 21 dust storm, another thick plume of dust blew off the east coast of Sudan on June 28, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust plume blows off the coast and forms an arc over the Red Sea, headed toward the southeast. Along the Sudanese coast is a dry salt lake, which could provide some of the dust in this storm.
Metadata
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Sensor
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Start Date
2006-06-28 -
Event Start Date
2006-06-21 -
NH Image ID
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NH Event ID
11032 -
NH Posting Date
2006-06-28 -
Viewspace Caption
Just days after a June 21 dust storm, another thick plume of dust blew off the east coast of Sudan on June 28, 2006. And NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust plume blows off the coast and forms an arc over the Red Sea, headed toward the southeast. Along the Sudanese coast is a dry salt lake, which could provide some of the dust in this storm.
