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

On July 5, 2020, the NOAA-20 satellite captured this True Color imagery of hazy smoke from fires burning across a large portion of central Africa.

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

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.

GOES-East satellite focused its Advanced Baseline Imager on wildfires in the four corners region of the western United States.

Himawari-8 watched a swirling low pressure storm system kick up dust and sand from the Gobi Desert into China.

Two years ago today, NOAA announced that its JPSS satellite, NOAA-20, was fully operational.