Dust from the Arabian Peninsula and a wake from Socotra Island may have collaborated to create dust streamers over the Arabian Sea in early September 2006. Wind passing over an island can create a affecting atmospheric patterns downwind. Satellites have long observed such phenomena in earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4487 clouds. On September 9, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (MODIS) flying onboard NASA's terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured this image of what appears to be an island wake. Rather than affecting clouds, however, this wake appears to affect a dust plume. The Arabian Peninsula produces a substantial portion of Earth's dust storms, and the area likely supplied the dust captured in this image. Once caught in the island's wake, the dust produced two streamers running in a roughly parallel direction.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response team.
| Date Taken: | 07.31.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 10.17.2012 22:08 |
| Photo ID: | 736300 |
| Resolution: | 6000x6000 |
| Size: | 4.1 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
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