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Haze over Eastern China
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A thick layer of haze blanketed the North China Plain on October 9, 2014, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image at 2:50 Coordinated Universal Time (10:50 a.m. local time). The haze obscured many features usually visible in MODIS imagery of the area, including China’s largest city, Beijing. On the day this image was acquired, measurements from ground-based sensors at the U.S.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHaze over Eastern China. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000931.
