NASA Image Features Massive Dust Plume Over Red Sea
- 11 years ago
On June 22nd, 2013, an astronaut captured almost the entire length of the Red Sea from the International Space Station.
The Red Sea is a spectacular sight in many regards. Imagine, what it'd look like from space.
On June 22nd, 2013, an astronaut captured almost the entire length of the Red Sea from the International Space Station. The NASA image provides a panoramic view and shows the Gulf of Suez, and portions of the Nile River along with the Sahara Desert.
Most notably, the image depicts one of Egypt’s frequent dust plumes. The International Space Station is about 340 miles above the plume which appears as a blurry white cloud surging from dry land to over the Red Sea.
It reaches most of the way towards Saudi Arabia. The photo view is stunning and depicts the parallel margin of the coastlines. The land rift that is now filled by the Red Sea has been slowly widening for the past 30 million years.
It is now 200 miles wide at one point, where the dust plume can be seen in the image. It is only in the last 5 million years that the rift began filling with water from the sea.
The Red Sea is a spectacular sight in many regards. Imagine, what it'd look like from space.
On June 22nd, 2013, an astronaut captured almost the entire length of the Red Sea from the International Space Station. The NASA image provides a panoramic view and shows the Gulf of Suez, and portions of the Nile River along with the Sahara Desert.
Most notably, the image depicts one of Egypt’s frequent dust plumes. The International Space Station is about 340 miles above the plume which appears as a blurry white cloud surging from dry land to over the Red Sea.
It reaches most of the way towards Saudi Arabia. The photo view is stunning and depicts the parallel margin of the coastlines. The land rift that is now filled by the Red Sea has been slowly widening for the past 30 million years.
It is now 200 miles wide at one point, where the dust plume can be seen in the image. It is only in the last 5 million years that the rift began filling with water from the sea.