NASA’s CALIPSO satellite tracks giant plumes of dust that travel from Africa’s Sahara desert to South America’s Amazon rainforest. The Goddard Spaceflight Center has released a video that gives a 3D representation of the dust plumes as NASA research scientist Dr. Hongbin Yu explains the phenomenon.
Data from CALIPSO was recently used in the first multi-year study of the fertilizing effects the phosphorous-rich dust has on the Amazon. Yu was one of the authors of the study.
