Haze over the Mid-Atlantic States

Haze dulled this picture of the mid-Atlantic states, taken on August 25, 2007, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite. In this image, a wide band of haze hangs over the eastern seaboard and the Atlantic, with clouds floating overhead.

An August 25, 2007, posting on the U.S. Air Quality-Smog Blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, described poor air quality, including unhealthy ozone levels in parts of Maryland and New Jersey. Local pollution was listed as a possible culprit.

You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of the U.S. East Coast suitable for use with Google Earth.

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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the Goddard Land Processes data archives (LAADS).

Published August 28, 2007
Data acquired August 25, 2006

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Aqua > MODIS