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Dust storm over The Canary Islands

Posted on Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Dust storm over The Canary Islands
Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC

Uploader comment: In late December 2015 strong winds carried dust from the Sahara desert westward over the west coast of Africa and over the Canary Islands. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this true-color image on December 25.


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