NASA MODIS Image of the Day: February 12, 2010 – Dust over Iran
Dust plumes blew over Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Gulf of Oman on February 8, 2010.
The MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this true-color image the same day.
Pale beige dust plumes fan out over western Afghanistan, along the border with Iran. More plumes appear in the south, over southeastern Iran and western Pakistan. A thick plume of dust spreads over part of the Gulf of Oman. A line of tiny clouds fringes this plume’s southwestern margin. In the east, the plume appears truncated by a cloud bank. The dual-natured Dasht-e Lut Desert in Iran appears clearly in this image, but none of the dust appears to have arisen from that location. Instead, dust appears to rise from areas known to hold dry salt lakes (Iran-Afghanistan border and southern Iran) and sand seas (southwestern Pakistan).
