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Dust, A True World Traveler Blog for Kids + DIY Activity

The Moroccan coastline runs diagonally across the image. The land is on the right and largely beige and brown in color. The Atlantic Ocean on the left along with some small islands. Significant cloud coverage is interspersed over the dark blue ocean waters. Light colored dust blows off the land in the center of the image, obscuring the ocean below somewhat.
Desert winds kicked up a cloud of dust from northern Africa.
NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin
Levels
  • Introductory (K-5)
Material Type
  • Article/Informative Text
  • Diagram/Illustration
  • Activity/Hands-on
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 3.2 – Energy from the Sun is created in the core…
NGSS
  • ESS2 - Earth's Systems
Heliophysics Topics
  • Atmosphere
  • Energy
Related Missions
  • Aqua (Earth)
  • Landsat (Earth)
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

Write for kids, this blog is about how dust travels around the world in the atmosphere. From NASA's Earth Observatory kids page (EO Kids), the downloadable pdf includes graphics, NASA imagery, vocabulary, and a DIY science activity to test the number of particulates in the sky.

Download the pdf here ↗