From an Atlantic gallery, The Strange Beauty of Sandstorms:
A dust storm approaches the Inata Gold Mine in Burkina Faso on June 1, 2012.
[Photo: CC BY-Darryl Keith]
A large dust storm sweeps across downtown Phoenix, Arizona, on July 21, 2012.
[Photo: Ross D. Franklin / AP]
A huge sandstorm engulfs the Saudi capital of Riyadh on March 10, 2009.
[Photo: Jad Saab / AP]
A large dust storm blows in near Lubbock, Texas.
[Photo: Caleb Holder / Shutterstock]
A gigantic cloud of dust, known as a haboob, advances over Khartoum, Sudan, on April 29, 2007.
[Photo: AFP / Getty]
A dust storm hovers over Queen Creek, Arizona, on August 18, 2011.
[Photo: Matt York / AP]
A dust storm billows across the western desert of Iraq on April 26, 2005, in Al Asad, Iraq.
[Photo: Shannon Arledge / USMC via Getty]
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