The Eastern Atlantic African Dust Storm Continues

The Eastern Atlantic African Dust Storm Continues- One of the things that NASA's HS3 hurricane mission has been investigating this year is the Saharan Air Layer and how Saharan dust affects tropical cyclones. On Sept. 29 at 8:15 a.m. EDT, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite took this picture of Saharan dust blowing off the western coasts of Mauritania and the Western Sahara and over the Atlantic Ocean. For more on the #NASAHS3 mission visit: www.nasa.gov/hs3