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Pollution over Eastern China

Thick haze hung low over eastern China on October 9, 2004, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. A few fires, marked with red dots, were burning, but they certainly can’t account for the haze, which is so thick that the land is not visible in places.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published October 12, 2004
Data acquired October 9, 2004

Source:
Terra > MODIS