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Streamers of Dust off Namibia

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Streamers of Dust off Namibia
June 24, 2003

On June 24, 2003, the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) captured this image of southern Africa showing numerous dust plumes streaming oceanward from theNamibia coastline— a pattern that previously collected SeaWiFS imagery indicates is common in this part of the world at this time of the year.

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Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

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