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Dust Storm over Southern Egypt

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Dust Storm over Southern Egypt
August 6, 2015

On August 6, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image showing a wall of dust blowing north from Sudan toward southern Egypt.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.

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