November 14, 2022 - Aerosols Along the Kirthar Mountains
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The eastern slopes of Pakistan’s Kirthar Mountains served as a
formidable boundary to a blanket of thick haze covering the Indus River
Valley in mid-November 2022. The Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this
stunning true-color image of the scene on November 10.
The rugged Kirthar Mountains are made up of a series of parallel rock
hill ridges that rise as high as 8,000 feet (2,400 km). They form a
tall barrier between the Indus Plain (east) and the province of
Balochistan. When haze spreads over the Indus Plain—as it often does
this time of year—it rarely rises over the mountains, but can
accumulate against the rocky ridges in the lower elevations
Haze is common at this time of year when farmers in northeastern
Pakistan and northwestern India set fires to clear their fields of
end-of-crop-year stubble and prepare fields for new planting. Haze also
becomes more intense in the fall as cooling temperatures require
additional heating, increasing urban and industrial pollution. Cooling
temperatures also bring air inversions, which can trap aerosol
pollutants close to the ground.
Image Facts
Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 11/10/2022
Resolutions: 1km (497 KB), 500m (1.2 MB), 250m (757.8 KB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-11-14
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