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Dust and Smoke Over West Africa

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Feb 20, 2004
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2004-02-17 00:00:00
February 17, 2004

The West African coastline was partially hidden beneath a thick veil of haze—likely a mixture of dust and smoke from numerous agricultural fires—on February 17, 2004. In this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Terra satellite, the active fire detections made by the sensor are marked in yellow.

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Image derived from code developed by the MODIS Rapid Reponse Team using data from the Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC.

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