Sulfur Dioxide from Noril’sk, Russia

Much of the world’s nickel, palladium, and copper comes from a single location in Siberia, the Noril’sk mining facility. Because the metals must be extracted from sulfide ore, however, the same facility also produces much of the world’s sulfur dioxide pollution.

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NASA image by Jesse Allen, based by OMI data provided courtesy of Nickolay Krotkov, NASA/GSFC OMI Sulfur Dioxide Group.

Published December 5, 2008
Data acquired June 1, 2005 - August 30, 2007

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