Amazing video shows how dust moves from the Sahara Desert to Brazil

Here ’s an awful 3D visualization fromNASAthat shows how the Sahara Desert helps fecundate the Amazon rainforest even though they ’re on two different continents that are separated by an intact ocean . The Saharan dust is carry over by hint and the phosphoric in the debris is of the essence to the Amazon .

It ’s really neat how the world ’s largest desert is responsible for creating the human race ’s turgid pelting timber . It ’s also interesting that the amount of phosphorus in the sand sent from the Sahara—22,000 tons — isabout the same amount that the Amazon loses from rain and flooding every yr .

In full , about 27.7 million tons of dust is blown over from the Sahara to the Amazon . NASA saysthat ’s enough to occupy 104,980 semi trucks .