In the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere, massive dust storms from the African Sahara waft southwest across the Atlantic to drop tons of vital minerals on the Amazon basin in South America. Now, scientists have pinpointed the source of many of those dust storms and estimated their dust content.
ON THE WAY. Satellite photo shows dust (arrow), bound for the Amazon, blowing away from the Sahara’s Bodélé depression.
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