English: Satellite photo of the Sichuan Basin — in
Sichuan Province, north-central China.
Showing two different kinds of
aerosols (particles suspended in the atmosphere). At top right is dust from the Gobi Desert (out of the scene at upper left); and below that is pollution from the urban and industrial centers of the Sichuan Basin in Sichuan.
Dates: Datastart 2002-04-14 - Visualization Date 2002-04-23
The original page says:
This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from April 14, 2002, shows two different kinds of aerosols (particles suspended in the atmosphere). At top right is dust from the
Gobi Desert (out of the scene at upper left), and below that is pollution from the urban and industrial centers of the
Sichuan Basin of
Sichuan, central China.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet/
Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
[2]
English: Satellite photo of the Sichuan Basin — in
Sichuan Province, north-central China.
Showing two different kinds of
aerosols (particles suspended in the atmosphere). At top right is dust from the Gobi Desert (out of the scene at upper left); and below that is pollution from the urban and industrial centers of the Sichuan Basin in Sichuan.
Dates: Datastart 2002-04-14 - Visualization Date 2002-04-23
The original page says:
This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from April 14, 2002, shows two different kinds of aerosols (particles suspended in the atmosphere). At top right is dust from the
Gobi Desert (out of the scene at upper left), and below that is pollution from the urban and industrial centers of the
Sichuan Basin of
Sichuan, central China.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet/
Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
[2]