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Dust Above the Red Sea

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Jun 28, 2017
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2017-06-27 00:00:00
June 27, 2017

On June 27, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of a dust plume blowing over the Red Sea. Fine sediment in this area frequently lofts into the air and above the water.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Pola Lem.

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