Sahara Desert Satellite View

Satellite data showing the sahara dust plume nicknamed godzilla in june 2020.

Sahara desert satellite view.

Watch in near. The expedition 50 crew set up the earthkam gear in the harmony module s earth facing hatch window to allow students to photograph targets on earth. This dust is carried in. A massive dust plume from the sahara desert reaches far out over the atlantic ocean stretching across 2 000 miles in this view from the nasa noaa suomi npp earth observing satellite on june 13.

Modified copernicus sentinel data 2020 processed by esa cc by sa 3 0 igo. Sahara from arabic ṣaḥrāʾ desert largest desert in the world. Geoeye 1 satellite image of the sahara desert. Filling nearly all of northern africa it measures approximately 3 000 miles 4 800 km from east to west and between 800 and 1 200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3 320 000 square miles 8 600 000 square km.

Saharan air layer forecast description. Address of direct link for this product. Noaa s goes satellite captured this series of animating images on friday as the dust entered the deep tropical atlantic from africa. See the latest western sahara enhanced weather satellite map including areas of cloud cover.

The saharan air layer also known as saharan dust is made of sand dirt and other dust that is lifted into the atmosphere from the vast desert area that covers most of north africa. Middle school students programmed a camera aboard the international space station the sally ride earthkam to photograph this portion of the sahara desert in western libya on october 3 2016. The sahara s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə s ə ˈ h ær ə. The ineractive map makes it easy to navitgate around the globe.

Today s view of a large saharan dust plume. الصحراء الكبرى aṣ ṣaḥrāʼ al kubrá the greatest desert is a desert located on the african continent with an area of 9 200 000 square kilometres 3 600 000 sq mi it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third largest desert overall smaller only than the deserts of antarctica and the arctic. The actual area varies as the desert expands and contracts over time.