The dust that arose along the China-Mongolia border on March 8, 2013, remained suspended the following day. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra
satellite captured this image on March 9. The dust had continued
traveling toward the southeast, and the camel-colored plume extended
several hundred kilometers into eastern China.
In the southeast (lower right corner of this image), the dust
approached China’s coastal plain. Gray haze hung over that region and
although the dust likely worsened air quality there, the gray color of
the haze suggested other sources, such as urban and industrial smog, and
smoke from fires. At least one fire sent a discernible smoke plume
eastward, ahead of the dust.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response. Caption by Michon Scott.
- Instrument: Terra - MODIS
