On April 9, 2008, numerous dust plumes blew off the Libyan coast and over the Mediterranean Sea. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite captured this image the same day. Although contrasting strongly with the underlying ocean water, the tan plumes are thin enough to allow a view of the land and water surfaces underneath the dust. The plumes blow toward the east-northeast, turning more northward as they move farther off the coast.
This dust storm continued a earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14778 pattern of intermittent storms blowing off the African coast and over the Mediterranean in the early spring of 2008.
You can download a eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/19000/19790/libya_tmo_2008100.kmz 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of the storm suitable for use with earth.google.com/ Google Earth.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response team. Caption by Michon Scott.
| Date Taken: | 08.03.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 02.08.2013 12:20 |
| Photo ID: | 847387 |
| Resolution: | 5336x4892 |
| Size: | 3.29 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, D.C., US |
| Web Views: | 4 |
| Downloads: | 3 |
