The Errant Æsthete

The BBC reports that “scientists have been sailing across the Atlantic in a bid to track down sand from the Sahara Desert.” They are chasing an aerial landform whilst plying currents through the sea – terrestrial stability is nowhere in sight. Tracking that desert in the sky, then, the scientists have already “encountered two large sand storms during their cruise and recorded footage of their dust-drenched experience for the BBC News website.” It’s airborne geology, of a different kind. [LINK]

“We were on top of the ship, you could just see it coming - there was a wall of dust coming towards us and it got very hazy after that. The ship was covered in dust - it was just fantastic.”

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