Giant Saharan Dust Cloud Moves Over the Atlantic as Seen by MISR 06-26-2020 Every year around 200 million metric tons of dust – a mass of more than 600 Empire State Buildings – blows off the Saharan Desert in North Africa and out over the Atlantic Ocean. In the summer, some of this dust can reach the Caribbean Islands and even the United States mainland, affecting visibility and air quality. On June 17, 2020 a large dust storm formed in the western part of the Sahara, producing a massive dust cloud that began moving across the Atlantic. >>
Introducing the New MISR Aerosol Product 02-10-2020 JPL and NASA Langley Atmospheric Data Center (ASDC) released a new version of the MISR aerosol products, which feature significant improvements. >>
Terra: Five Instruments—One Monumental Data Record 01-29-2020 After more than 20 years in space, the five instruments aboard NASA’s Terra satellite continue their singular achievement of compiling a climate data record of Earth. >>