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The dust reddened the skies over Sydney and turned air quality hazardous over parts of New South Wales.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and NOAA-20 OMPS data courtesy of Colin Seftor (SSAI). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 13, 2019
Data acquired February 13, 2019

Sources:
NOAA-20 > OMPS
Suomi NPP > VIIRS