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Dust Obscures the Red Sea

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Mar 22, 2017
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2017-03-19 00:00:00
March 19, 2017

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of airborne dust on March 19, 2017. Winds carried the plume east from Africa.

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

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