Dust storm in the Iraq issue

Only a few days after an another dust storm in the same region, a fresh storm broke in the Iraq issue on 4 April 2011. The moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Terra satellite took this picture on the same day.

References for the dust are not obvious in this image, but the storm can at least partially in Syria and Turkey before blowing emerged to the South. After the start of the storm probably collected additional material from fine River and closed sediments in the Iraq, and may have material in the sand stirred even seas of the Northern Saudi Arabia. The Arabian peninsula is one of the most productive-producing dust regions in the world.

NASA images courtesy Jeff schmaltz, MODIS rapid response team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michon Scott.Instrument: Terra - MODIS

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