Gargantuan Saharan Dust Plume Blowing Across the Atlantic is Visible from Nearly a Million Miles Away in Space

A dust plume stretching from the Sahara all the way across the Atlantic Ocean is seen in this image acquired by the GOES-16 environmental satellite on June 6, 2022. The plume was so prominent that it was also spotted by a satellite stationed nearly a million miles away from Earth. For that image, see below. (Credit: RAMMB/CIRA)