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Dust Plumes Over the Mediterranean Sea
November 6, 2009 | NASA Earth Observatory

NASA’s Aqua Satellite captured this spectacular image of dust plumes streaming from the desert of Egypt out over the Mediterranean Sea on October 4, 2009.

Egypt Dust Storm


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