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NOAA satellites monitored a large plume of dust from the Sahara Desert as it traveled off the west coast of North Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean.

NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured dust from the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) as it wafted its way over the Atlantic Ocean and Canary…

NOAA-20 catches orange skies and dusty ski slopes plagued Europe during the first weekend of February

GOES East satellite see a dust storm blow from the northern coast of Mari Menuco Lake, Argentina,

On Oct. 11, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite watched a huge wall of dust blow more than 300 miles from eastern Colorado to Nebraska,…

In both visible and infrared imagery, dust can often be confused with clouds such as cirrus, since they are both considered optically thin.

On June 28–29, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite watched a particularly intense dust cloud race across Nevada’s Mojave desert.

GOES-East satellite captured this GeoColor imagery of an expansive plume of dust from the Sahara Desert traveling westward.