Arabian sand storm

The thick wall of dust that March 25-27, 2011, blew in the Arabian peninsula had diluted in an ethereal plume, which over the Arabian Sea from the time extended the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite this image on 30 March caught. The long plume extends over hundreds of miles from the southern banks of the Oman on the coast of Pakistan. Dust clouds of the powerful storm stay still the peninsula and the Gulf of Oman.

NASA image courtesy Jeff schmaltz, MODIS rapid response team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Instrument: Terra - MODIS

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