Dust storm over the Red Sea

A great cloud of dust and sand hangs over the Red Sea (image center) in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured on August 20, 2003. The cloud of dust begins at the border of Egypt (top left) and Sudan (below) and stretches southward to Eritrea and eastward across the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published August 20, 2003
Data acquired August 20 - 20, 2003

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