December 31, 2002
Central eastern China was not too cloudy on the last day of 2002. Nevertheless, the ground was hidden from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) in many places by a denselayer of grayish haze that probably was generatedby the burning of heating fuels such as coal.
North of the worst of the haze and south ofBeijing, snow covers much of the North ChinaPlain. The many dark smudges in the snowcover (visible in the full-resolution version)are local population centers.
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Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
