Dust From The Great Sahara in Africa Spread All The Way To Reach The Caribbean

i know the dust from the Sahara reach countries in Europe, like Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. but that is pretty close to Africa. i didn't know it can travel all the way to the Caribbean, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. that is 3000 miles.
so i was surprised to see it in the Google Earth's Daily Planet layer today (June 2nd, 2010)

here is a screen shot with the measurement tool showing 3000 miles. (click the images to view large size)


and here is a closer look

Annular eclipse in the Indian Ocean caught in NASA daily images

I am a big fan of Google Earth, and i keep both the morning and afternoon daily image layers from NASA MODIS sattelite saved in My Places in Google Earth and occasionally check them.

Yesterday when i activated the layer, i found something interesting. The annular eclipse which occurred over Indian Ocean has made it into the images. so i took two screen shots, one with the morning layer and the other with the afternoon layer.

Morning Layer

Afternoon Layer