Sulfur Dioxide from Noril’sk, Russia - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Sulfur Dioxide from Noril’sk, Russia - related image preview

800 x 871
291 KB - JPEG

Sulfur Dioxide from Noril’sk, Russia - related image preview

JPEG

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.


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

Source:
Aura > OMI