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Location: Mediterranean Sea<\/p>\n
Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery<\/p>\n
Saharan dust events occur when strong winds lift fine particles from North African desert surfaces and carry them across the Mediterranean Sea, affecting air quality, visibility, and ecosystems across a wide area.\u00a0Such events are a recurring feature of the Eastern Mediterranean’s climate and can transport significant quantities of mineral particles as far as southern Europe<\/p>\n
This true-colour image, acquired on 17 April 2026 by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, shows a vast plume originating from Egyptian territory and arcing across more than 1,000 km of open water. The plume\u2019s colour shifts from dense sandy-brown at the source to pale, diffuse filaments blending into streaks of clouds near the port city of Tobruk on the Libyan coast.<\/p>\n
Copernicus data support the monitoring of dust transport, enabling improved forecasting, environmental assessment, and early warning system development for affected regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image of the day 20 Apr 2026 Earth Observation | Copernicus Air Pollution Pollution Download\u00a0[WEBP, 549.19 KB] Location:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26783,41278,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-80798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faroe-islands","8":"tag-earth-observation","9":"tag-earth-observation-copernicus","10":"tag-faroe-islands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116562745538464597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}