The Bodele Depression is one of the largest sources of airborne dust in the world. Here a bright swath of dust stretches over the upper right part of a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Terra satellite on February 18, 2004. At bottom left, the wetlands surrounding what remains of Lake Chad are speckled with encroaching sand dunes.
The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions.Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
