Geoscience Reference
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Plate 5
Massive dust plumes over the eastern North Atlantic on 26 February 2000 as viewed by the SeaWiFs sensor on board
the NASA OrbView-2 satellite. Dust is transported from the western Sahara and coastal areas of Africa across the Canary Islands
(Prospero 2001) (
NASA photograph, courtesy of J.M. Prospero
).
