March 28, 2006
Dust and smoke mingled in the skies over Southeast Asia and eastern China on March 28, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard the Terra satellite took this picture the same day.
In this image, white clouds hang in smoggy skies. The tiny red dots splattered over the landscape are thermal anomalies, areas where the satellite sensor detected temperatures much warmer than the surroundings. These thermal anomalies are likely agricultural fires, which are common in this area at this time of year. The yellowish haze near the top of the image may be dust, perhaps from a Gobi Desert dust storm.
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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.
