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Dust Storm over Libya and Egypt

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2005-03-03 00:00:00
March 3, 2005

Dust continued to blow across northern Africa and the Mediterranean Sea on March 3, 2005. In this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite, dust stretches northeastward from Libya and Egypt all the way to the island of Cyprus (upper right).

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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.

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