large image from March 5, 2001 (830 kb)
large image from March 6, 2001 (2200 kb)
While the northeastern United States experienced a majorsnowstorm, northeastern China was hit by yet anothermajor dust storm yesterday and today (March 5–6, 2001).In these Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view (SeaWiFS)images of the area, clouds (white pixels) can easily bedistinguished from the dust (light brown pixels)
In the March 5 scene, the heaviest visible concentrations of dustare blowing southeastward from the Gobi Desert, between the BohaiSea and the Mongolian border. South of the dust storm(in the lower left corner of the image), over the capital city ofBeijing, there also appears to be a thick shroud of haze (greyish pixels),possibly from industrial emissions.
The March 6 SeaWiFS image over the region shows the dust stormfrom the mainland blowing eastward across Korea and Japan, and out into the Pacific Ocean.
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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
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