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| Keywords: Asian Dust, NASA aerospace photography.jpg A thick shroud of haze lingers over China turning the sky an opaque grey over most of the eastern provinces and almost completely blotting out details of the land surface in this true-color scene Beijing China ™s capital city is situated roughly 150 km 93 miles west of Bo Hai Bay under what appears to the densest portion of the aerosol pollution These data were collected on January 11 2002 by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor SeaWiFS flying aboard OrbView 2 The heavy aerosol concentrations can be seen blowing eastward across the Bo Hai Bay and Yellow Sea It appears that some of the pollution has reached as far east as North and South Korea and the islands of Japan http //visibleearth nasa gov/view_rec php id 15966 2002-01-15 Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE PD-SeaWiFS Satellite pictures of China Aerosols Air pollution in China | ||||
