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Aral Sea dust storm
A colorful world map shows swirling clouds of aerosols in green, purple, and red, with arrows pointing to different regions and a note reading: What are aerosols?
Smoke from Central American forest fires drifting over North America, as measured by the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on May 22, 1998.NASA's Earth Probe Mission satellite can detect smoke in the atmosphere and is thus able to monitor large fires from space. Aboard the satellite, TOMS measures aerosols, enabling scientists to create maps of the smoke's density.
World map of aerosol transport, Aug 1–Sep 14, 2024: Sahara dust (pink), wildfire smoke (orange/red), sea salt (blue), sulfates (green).
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How Invisible Aerosols Connect in Earth's Atmosphere
We're basically living in one big lava lamp.
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Earth's air in living color: dust, fire, sea, and storm
This visualization shows how aerosols—tiny particles in the air—moved through Earth's...
Video: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

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Aral Sea dust storm
A major dust storm occurring along the eastern coastline of the Aral Sea in May 2007.
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Smoke from Central American forest fires drifting...
Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
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