Sahara Desert Satellite View

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

Sahara desert satellite view.

The actual area varies as the desert expands and contracts over time. El niño la niña data. Modified copernicus sentinel data 2020 processed by esa cc by sa 3 0 igo. See the latest western sahara enhanced weather satellite map including areas of cloud cover.

Today s view of a large saharan dust plume. 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 atlantic view. Saharan air layer forecast description.

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. Watch in near. Satellite imaging corporation specializes in high quality geoeye 1 satellite imagery. Geoeye 1 satellite image of the sahara desert.

The ineractive map makes it easy to navitgate around the globe. 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. 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. Sahara from arabic ṣaḥrāʾ desert largest desert in the world.

The sahara s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə s ə ˈ h ær ə. Noaa s goes satellite captured this series of animating images on friday as the dust entered the deep tropical atlantic from africa. This dust is carried in.