African Dust Feeds South American Rainforest | Video

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite shows wind blown Saharan dust nourishes plants with phosphorus, which is in limited supply in the Amazon.

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