Black Carbon: Asia's Plain Of Air Pollution

  • Released Thursday, August 11, 2011
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
  • ID: 10714

A NASA satellite image provides a true-color look at the same phenomenon. The mountains keep haze fenced in to the southwest.

A NASA satellite image provides a true-color look at the same phenomenon. The mountains keep haze fenced in to the southwest.

Visualizations can't do it all. Here, scientists trek into the Himalayas to collect ice cores that contain soot layers dating back to the 1950s.

Visualizations can't do it all. Here, scientists trek into the Himalayas to collect ice cores that contain soot layers dating back to the 1950s.

Dark layers, comprised mainly of black carbon and dust, are clearly visible as a scientist explores a crevasse on Mera glacier in Nepal.

Dark layers, comprised mainly of black carbon and dust, are clearly visible as a scientist explores a crevasse on Mera glacier in Nepal.

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Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Image of Researchers Hiking on Ice Sheet courtesy of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Image of Researcher Rappelling Down Crevasse courtesy of Jesse Cunningham, http://www.jessecunningham.com



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