Envisat captures sand and dust from the Sahara Desert blowing west across Mauritania (top), Senegal (middle) and Guinea Bissau (bottom) and over the North Atlantic Ocean before turning in a northerly direction just above the Cape Verde islands.
Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer acquired this image on 1 July 2010 at a resolution of 300 m.
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