Dust storms over the Persian Gulf

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

On June 14, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured an image of a dust storm veiling the northern part of the Persian Gulf and surrounding countries: (clockwise from bottom left) Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran. The front of the dust cloud stops just short of the peninsular country of Qatar, at bottom center.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2003-06-16