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A Saharan Dust Storm Over the Atlantic Ocean

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A large Saharan dust storm leaves the West African coast to move over the Atlantic Ocean and cover downwind islands.  Courtesy Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Terra satellite on March 2004. 

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