Huge Dust Storm Blows Out to Sea

This plume from the Sahara Desert is spans several hundred kilometers. (Image credit: NASA.)

From NASA's Earth Observatory:

The dust plumes that arose in the western Sahara Desert on January 18, 2012, continued their westward journey the following day. On January 19, 2012, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of a giant, crescent-shaped plume over the Atlantic Ocean.

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Huge Dust Storm Blows Out to Sea