NASA Photo ID: STS065-75-047       File Name: 10109557.jpg
  Film Type: 70mm                    Date Taken: 07/23/94
  Title: STS-65 Earth observation of Bahama Islands with dust pall, taken from OV-102
  Description:
  During STS-65 a significant dust pall that originated in western Africa was
  recorded by a series of low oblique color photographs as it continued its
  westward trek across the Atlantic Ocean and then the Caribbean Sea and the
  Gulf of Mexico area.  This particular view captures the northern edge of
  the dust, positioned just slightly north of the Bahama Islands.  This major
  transport of African dust to the western hemisphere has been recorded
  periodically by other Shuttle astronauts and earlier Shuttle missions. 
  Scientifically, there is evidence that some of this African dust even
  reaches the Amazon rainforest and serves as a source of airborne nutrients
  for rainforest vegetation.  This photograph was taken aboard Columbia,
  Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102.