Saharan dust off West Africa (afternoon overpass)

  • 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 Aqua satellite on April 30, 2003.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-04-30