http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/05/21/question-from-facebook-what-controls-the-thickness-of-a-storms-dust/?src=earthmatters-rss Earth is an amazing planet, and the one that matters most to us. Let’s have a conversation about it. Wed, 01 May 2013 01:19:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/05/21/question-from-facebook-what-controls-the-thickness-of-a-storms-dust/#comment-10819 Peter Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:50:37 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=1513#comment-10819 I think that wind is only helping to transport the dust. Forming factors are mostly within differences in atmospheric pressure high up in the air and close to the ground. After all wind itself is a product of moving and interacting atmospheric masses.

]]> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/05/21/question-from-facebook-what-controls-the-thickness-of-a-storms-dust/#comment-10814 Pat Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:13:15 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=1513#comment-10814 Cool picture.. but of cause wind. That is only one thing can make such a thing happen.

]]> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/05/21/question-from-facebook-what-controls-the-thickness-of-a-storms-dust/#comment-10805 Uli Mammut Wed, 23 May 2012 15:42:23 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=1513#comment-10805 Great pictures (especially the pictures from the dust storm Mars!) and very interesting informations about the different formations of dust “clouds” !

]]> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/05/21/question-from-facebook-what-controls-the-thickness-of-a-storms-dust/#comment-10802 Shashi Wed, 23 May 2012 05:42:29 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=1513#comment-10802 The difference in dust storms could be due to varying altitudes or perhaps outcome of some natural effects.

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