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Collection:
NASA Earth Observatory Collection
Title:
Dust Storm off Morocco
Description:
Bright yellow streamers of dust sweep off North Africa?s Moroccan coast toward the Canary Islands in this true-color Terra MODIS image from February 17, 2004. Beneath the dust, the G?Aydat al Jhoucha mountains are darker shades of brown marching toward the coast. Just off the coast of Lanzarote Island, the northeastern-most of the Canaries, gravity waves caused by the high winds driving the dust storm create dark and light stripes on the water. More gravity waves stretch from Gran Canaria, the round island toward the center of the group, toward the Moroccan coast.

The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at add itional resolutions.

Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MOD IS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Satellite - Sensor:
Terra- MODIS
facet_what:
Terra
facet_where:
Morocco
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_when:
February 17, 2004
facet_when_year:
2004
UID:
SPD-ETOBS-11950
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Dust Storm off Morocco