Estimated 43 Million Tons of Sahara Dust Falls into Caribbean Sea Annually, NASA

Every year, a staggering amount of dust from the Sahara Desert travels across the Atlantic Ocean and settles in the Caribbean Sea and the Amazon rainforest.

While Antarctica is often considered the largest desert on Earth, it's the Sahara that holds the title of the largest hot desert. The absence of liquid water, not the presence of sand, defines a desert. 

International Partnership to Study Atmospheric Particles

A survey conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol…