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Dust and Smoke off the West Coast of Africa: Natural Hazards |
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Dust and smoke mixed over the Atlantic as the Moderate |
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Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov |
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(MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite took this |
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picture on July 28, 2007. |
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In this image, a beige dust plume hundreds of kilometers |
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long blows off the west coast of Africa in a clockwise |
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direction, toward the northwest. West of that plume is |
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another, lighter plume, which may consist of dust or some |
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combination of dust and smoke. As the dust blows off the |
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Sahara, a plume of pale gray smoke blows off Gran |
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Canaria, also curving toward the northwest. While the |
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smoke largely skirts Tenerife, it heads straight for San |
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Sebastian and Santa Cruz. |
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NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, |
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rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, |
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Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Date Published: 2011-08-02 04:25:49 |
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Identifier: wafrica_amo_2007209 |
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Item Size: 995545 |
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Language: eng |
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Media Type: image |
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