VIDEO: Hurricane Irma startling images seen in new NASA atmosphere video

MIAMI - NASA has released a new video showing startling new images of the 2017 hurricanes that pounded the U.S. and Caribbean.

What makes the new visualizations so interesting is that it shows it all via the particles that are carried through the atmosphere.

Smoke from fires in the Pacific Northwest, sea salt and African desert dust can all be seen in crystal clear images.

The sea salt in particular helps show the hurricanes as the strong surface winds lift the particles into the air and bring them into the storm.

"Hurricane Irma is the first big storm that spawns off the coast of Africa," NASA writes. As the storm spins up, the Saharan dust is absorbed in cloud droplets and washed out of the storm as rain."

NASA remarks how the satellite video shows how the particles travel thousands of miles.

"Smoke from fires in the Pacific Northwest gets caught in a weather pattern and pulled all the way across the US and over to Europe. Hurricanes form off the coast of Africa and travel across the Atlantic to make landfall in the United States. Dust from the Sahara is blown into the Gulf of Mexico. To understand the impacts of aerosols, scientists need to study the process as a global system."

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