Dust off Namibia

Credit: Credit: Jacques Descloitres; MODIS team; NASA, Posted on: Thursday, 8 July 2004, 06:00 CDT Download full size image

Transparent veils of dust stream off of Namibia's coast into the southern Atlantic Ocean in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired July 7, 2004. The dust follows the wind arcing toward the south, while above and below white clouds cast black shadows on land and sea. Underneath the clouds, bright orange sand marks the Namib Desert, which is home to some of the tallest sand dunes on the planet - some reaching from 150-300 meters in height, and visible from space in the high-resolution 250-meter image.

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