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Haze along the Himalaya

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Dec 10, 2007
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2007-12-10 00:00:00
December 10, 2007

Haze hugged the southern slopes of the Himalaya on December 10, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture the same day. This image shows the region around Kanpur, India, with dingy gray haze blanketing the area. Multiple factors, including topography and weather, energy demand, and agricultural burning, can contribute to haze near the Himalaya in late fall and early winter.

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NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images of this region.

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