In case anyone is wondering, studying these aerosols is very important to our understanding of global ecology because the desert dust coming off the Sahara [1]

In case anyone is wondering, studying these aerosols is very important to our understanding of global ecology because the desert dust coming off the Sahara [1] supplies critical nutrients like phosphorus from the Bodélé Depression [2] in Chad to the Amazon rainforest on the other side of the planet [3]! This satellite will improve our ability to study this planetary transfer of nutrients and see if we can discover any other such connections. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_dust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_dust [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bod%C3%A9l%C3%A9_Depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bod%C3%A9l%C3%A9_Depression [3] https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-s-plants/ https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...