Since we're still some time away from being rocketed into space, (destination: Mars) the images below are, of course, from the recent dust storm in Sydney. What an amazing site! Thank goodness no one was injured but, you can't deny how unique and beautiful the images are that were captured in the midst of this storm. What an eerie experience it must have been to wake up to this mess. Here are some details about the event from NPR News.
"Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years blanketed the heavily populated east coast Wednesday in a cloud of red Outback grit, nearly closed the country's largest airport and left millions of people coughing and sputtering in the streets. No one was hurt as a result of the pall that swept in overnight, bringing an eerie orange dawn to Sydney. Such thick dust is rare over Sydney, and came along with other uncommon weather conditions across the country in recent days. Hailstorms have pummeled parts of the country this week, while other parts have been hit with an early spring mini-heatwave, and wildfires. The storms — visible as a huge brown smudge in satellite photographs of Australia on Wednesday — are the most severe since the 1940s, experts said. One was recorded traveling from southern Australia all the way to New Zealand some 1,400 miles away."These dust storms are some of the largest in the last 70 years," said Nigel Tapper, an environmental scientist at Monash University. Ten very dry years over inland southern Australia and very strong westerlies have conspired to produce these storms." -NPR News
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