A Dust Storm in Iraq – April 12, 2022
Iraq fell prey to a nasty, multi-day dust storm in early April. This photo, captured on April 9, 2022 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra satellite. The Suomi NPP (“NPP” stand for National Polar-orbiting Partnership) was launched in 2011 as a joint effort between the NOAA and NASA to collect more data on Earth’s weather for NOAA’s predictive models.
