Dust off Morocco

Credit: Credit: Jacques Descloitres; MODIS team; NASA, Posted on: Friday, 20 February 2004, 06:00 CST Download full size image

Bright yellow streamers of dust sweep off North Africa's Moroccan coast toward the Canary Islands in this true-color Terra MODIS image from February 17, 2004. Beneath the dust, the G'Aydat al Jhoucha mountains are darker shades of brown marching toward the coast. Just off the coast of Lanzarote Island, the northeastern-most of the Canaries, gravity waves caused by the high winds driving the dust storm create dark and light stripes on the water. More gravity waves stretch from Gran Canaria, the round island toward the center of the group, toward the Moroccan coast.

More Images

Mars
Stair-Stepped Mounds in Meridiani Planum.This image shows layered sedimentary rocks that fill an impact crater in the Meridiani Planum reg...

---

Universe
Planet-forming Disc .Astronomers have been able to study planet-forming discs around young Sun-like stars in unsurpassed ...

---