Haze and Pollution over China

November 3, 2003

A light grey haze hangs over much of Southeastern China and the Leizhou peninsula in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image taken by the Terra satellite on November 3, 2003. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel.

Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC