Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Amazing video shows how dust moves from the Sahara Desert to Brazil


Here's an awesome 3D visualization from NASA that shows how the Sahara Desert helps fertilize the Amazon rainforest even though they're on two different continents that are separated by an entire ocean. The Saharan dust is carried over by wind and the phosphorous in the dust is essential to the Amazon.


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