Saharan dust off West Africa

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres,MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

For a fourth day, a large plume of dust was blowing off the Sahara Desert and out over the Atlantic Ocean. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image was captured by Terra satellite on April 30, 2003.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-04-30