Dust blew off the coast of Turkey toward the island of Cyprus in late August 2008. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image on August 25, 2008. In this image, the dust appears as a ball of haze that stretches a tendril toward the Mediterranean island, which is partially hidden by clouds. The origin of the dust storm is unclear in this image, but it might have originated from dry lake bed sediments farther inland.
NASA image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott.
