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| Keywords: Pollution over east China.jpg This true-color image over eastern China was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS flying aboard NASA ™s Aqua satellite on Oct 16 2002 http //earthobservatory nasa gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images php3 img_id 10795 The scene reveals dozens of fires burning on the surface red dots and a thick pall of smoke and haze greyish pixels filling the skies overhead Notice in the high-resolution version of this image how the smog fills the valleys and courses around the contours of the terrain in China ™s hilly and mountainous regions The terrain higher in elevation is less obscured by the smog than the lower lying plains and valleys in the surrounding countryside This scene spans roughly from Beijing near top center to the Yangtze River the mouth of which can be seen toward the bottom right Toward the upper right corner the Bo Hai Bay is rather obscured by the plume of pollution blowing eastward toward Korea and the Pacific Ocean Toward the bottom right the Yangtze River is depositing its brownish sediment-laden waters into the Yellow Sea PD-USGov original upload log page en wikipedia Pollution_over_east_China jpg 2007-03-16 02 27 Kgrr 6000×4600×8 2227952 bytes <nowiki>This true-color image over eastern China was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS flying aboard NASA ™s Aqua satellite on Oct 16 2002 http //earthobservatory nasa gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images php3 img_id 10795 Th</nowiki> Air pollution in China Satellite pictures of China | ||||
