June 17, 2023 - Dust in Chad and Libya

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A long plume of camel-colored dust stretched across Chad and Libya on
June 13, 2023, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of
the scene.

The dust appears to originate in the Depression du Mourdi, east of the
Tibesti Massif in Chad and blows towards the northeast to cross into
Libya. Although not visible in this image, the plume appeared to be
continuous with additional dust moving along the same track that blew
across the Nile River Delta and Cairo, Egypt on that same day.

Northern Chad and all of Libya except for the Mediterranean coast sit
within the Sahara Desert, the largest hot desert on Earth and the
world’s largest source of airborne dust. Dust storms can arise at any
time of the year, with spring and fall the most frequent times in Chad
and Libya. with storms arising any time of the year when strong winds
blow. In Libya and Chad, dust storms are most frequent in spring and
fall.

Image Facts
Satellite: Aqua
Date Acquired: 6/13/2023
Resolutions: 1km (435.7 KB), 500m (1 MB), 250m (443.7 KB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-06-17

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