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Dust Storm off Egypt

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2024-02-05 12:00:00
February 5, 2003

This true-color image of Saharan Desert dust blowing northeastward from Libya and Egypt across the Mediterranean Sea was acquired on February 5, 2003, by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) aboard the OrbView-2 satellite.

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

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