A tan cloud of dust colors the skies off Africa’s west coast on September 21, 2009.
Published Sep 22, 2009
Lofting dust to altitudes above the clouds, a high-pressure system carried dust from Morocco to Spain.
Published Aug 7, 2018
While dust routinely blows across the Atlantic Ocean, scientists rarely see plumes as large and dense with particles as the one that darkened Caribbean skies in June 2020.
Published Jun 29, 2020
Satellite observations show how far winds normally spread North African dust particles before rain and gravity pull them down to the ocean.
Published Jan 9, 2020
An extensive dust storm in late February carried debris over the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the Amazon Basin.
Published Mar 4, 2015
Saharan dust hovered over the Atlantic for several days in mid-January 2008. This image shows two different areas of dust plume activity. Immediately off the coasts of Western Sahara and Mauritania, a series of tan dust plumes blow in predominantly straight lines toward the northwest. Farther west, a large, diffuse plume of dust hangs over the Atlantic Ocean
Published Jan 25, 2008
A veil of dust blurs the surface of the Thar Desert on the border between India and Pakistan in this photo-like image taken on April 20, 2010.
Published Apr 20, 2010
The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite spied dust from a Saharan sand storm blowing several thousand kilometers over the North Atlantic and Europe in April 2011.
Published Apr 15, 2011
Winds lofted dust from the Sahara desert and sent it drifting over the Iberian peninsula.
Published Feb 25, 2016
