Dust Storm in the Middle East

  • Released Thursday, October 17, 2013
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Dust from Syria and Iraq blows toward the northwest across Turkey and the easternmost Black Sea on July 30, 2011, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image. Dust forms a giant arc extending from northern Iraq across Turkey and the easternmost Black Sea. The northeastern tip of the dust plume appears to push into western Georgia.

MODIS image of dust over Turkey.

MODIS image of dust over Turkey.

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See http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51531

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This page was originally published on Thursday, October 17, 2013.
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