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Data acquired December 28, 2007 4400 x 5400 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired December 28, 2007 6672 x 4448 70 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired December 31, 2007 4400 x 5400 4 MB - JPEG
Data acquired December 31, 2007 6672 x 4448 78 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired December 28 - 31, 2007 56 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired December 28 - 31, 2007 JPEG
Data acquired December 28 - 31, 2007 540 x 704 JPEG
342 x 228 JPEG
In preparation for hosting the 2008 Olympic games, Beijing set up air-quality monitoring stations throughout the city. As 2007 drew to a close, the city was just one day shy of planners’ goal of 245 Blue Sky days for that year, and late December skies initially proved disappointing.
NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images of this region. Thanks to Chengcai Li, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, for meteorological interpretation.
Published January 4, 2008 Data acquired December 28 - 31, 2007