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Dust Storm in Sudan

June 19, 2010JPEG

A large dust storm blew across Sudan on June 19, 2010. The tan cloud of dust blurs the landscape in this natural-color image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The cloud of dust extends from just west of the Nile River to the Red Sea, across a distance of more than 700 kilometers.

NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

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Tan clouds of dust blur the view of Sudan in this natural-color satellite image from June 19, 2010.

Instrument:: Aqua — MODIS

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