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May 18, 2009 - Dust Storm over Sudan
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Central Sudan’s skies remained filled with dust on May 9, 2009, and the massive dust plume overhead stretched into the Central African Republic (at bottom left). The MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image the same day.
The dust cloud's southern margin is fairly distinct. Despite tendrils of dust blowing toward the southeast, deep green land cover peers out from under the plume’s southern margin. In the north, the dust plume’s extent is harder to discern, thanks to an arid landscape showing the same range of earth tones as the dust.
As Sudan possesses no substantial sand seas, this dust may have originated off the country’s northern border, in the massive sand deposits of the Sahara.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 05/09/2009
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Central Sudan’s skies remained filled with dust on May 9, 2009, and the massive dust plume overhead stretched into the Central African Republic (at bottom left). The MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image the same day.
The dust cloud's southern margin is fairly distinct. Despite tendrils of dust blowing toward the southeast, deep green land cover peers out from under the plume’s southern margin. In the north, the dust plume’s extent is harder to discern, thanks to an arid landscape showing the same range of earth tones as the dust.
As Sudan possesses no substantial sand seas, this dust may have originated off the country’s northern border, in the massive sand deposits of the Sahara.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 05/09/2009
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
