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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
A large plume of African dust and smoke blew out over the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 11, 2002, some of which appeared to be heading for Europe.
Fierce winds ripped across the Sahara Desert this past weekend and blew a large plume of dust out over the Atlantic Ocean. This true-color image of the dust event was acquired on February 11, 2002, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The light brown dust trail can be seen forming an arc a few hundred miles off the coast of Western Sahara and Mauritania. Northeasterly winds blowing across the Atlantic have redirected the dust towards Europe where it will likely settle.
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Start Date
2002-02-11 -
Event Start Date
2002-02-11 -
NH Image ID
1621 -
NH Event ID
1614 -
NH Posting Date
2002-02-12