China Dust Storm seen by Terra/MODIS and Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6-7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and The United States.
This animation starts with the Terra-MODIS image of April 7, 2001, and then zooms out to a regional view of China. This second view shows the widespread aerosol pollution that starts in China and spreads across the Pacific Ocean and into the United States.
April 7, 2001
April 8, 2001
April 9, 2001
April 10, 2001
April 11, 2001
April 12, 2001
April 13, 2001
April 14, 2001
April 15, 2001
April 17, 2001
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- Pawan K. Bhartia (NASA/GSFC)
- Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, December 3, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.
Series
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[Earth Probe: TOMS]
ID: 17
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