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