Dust Storm over Korea

  • Credit

    NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.

Dust blew over the Korean Peninisula toward the Sea of Japan in early April 2006.

Asian dust blew across the Korean Peninsula toward the Sea of Japan on April 8, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, two beige plumes of dust, the thicker plume to the south, swirl away from the peninsula in a counter-clockwise direction. The northern plume of dust mingles with white clouds. Some of the particles in these plumes may result from pollution rather than dust storms.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2006-04-08

  • Event Start Date

    2006-04-08

  • NH Image ID

    13484

  • NH Event ID

    10945

  • NH Posting Date

    2006-04-11