11-22-2017, 05:31 PM
PS. You can also see why the secondary site for the TMT, the Canary Islands, is subject to Sahara sands above the site. This has been known about for decades. I learned about it as a student when it was first discovered by the observatories there (the scientists using those telescopes found that they were detecting small particles from the Sahara rather than dust in space), but nice to see it in an actual video.