Image:Sahara dust plume Nov 1998.jpg

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Dust plume off the Sahara desert over the northeast Atlantic Ocean. The Azores are visible at the northwest edge of the dust plume in this SeaWiFS image. The Cape Verde Islands can be seen through the dust near the bottom of the image. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

Source

NASA Visible Earth

Date

01 November 1998

Author

Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Centre, and ORBIMAGE

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Public domain This image is from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project. Satellite data captured by the SeaWIFS sensor are released into the public domain 5 years after capture. Data less than five years old can be re-used only for educational or scientific purposes; any commercial use of such images must be coordinated with ORBIMAGE/GeoEye.

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