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African Dust over the Red Sea

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Jul 20, 2004
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African Dust over the Red Sea
July 16, 2004

Blowing dust swirled over (top left to bottom) Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea, and the Red Sea (center) on July 16, 2004. Summertime dust storms such as these have a significant cooling influence on regional temperatures there and to a lesser extent on temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this scene.

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NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at GSFC

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