{
    "count": 25,
    "next": null,
    "previous": null,
    "results": [
        {
            "id": 5566,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5566/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2025-07-03T14:59:59-04:00",
            "title": "TEMPO Air Quality Monitoring: Three Example Cases",
            "description": "Three visualizations demonstrating the air quality monitoring capabilities of the TEMPO mission.",
            "hits": 109
        },
        {
            "id": 5070,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5070/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2023-02-06T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Over the United States, 2005-2022",
            "description": "NO2 over the United States as measured by OMI, with labels || NO2_US_2005-2022.399_print.jpg (1024x576) [171.6 KB] || NO2_US_2005-2022.399_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.6 KB] || NO2_US_2005-2022.399_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || w_dates (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || NO2_US_2005-2022_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [20.0 MB] || NO2_US_2005-2022_2160p30.webm (3840x2160) [2.7 MB] || ",
            "hits": 215
        },
        {
            "id": 4994,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4994/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2022-04-18T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Over the United States, 2005-2021",
            "description": "NO2 over the United States as measured by OMI, with labels || NO2_US_2021.0399_print.jpg (1024x576) [170.4 KB] || NO2_US_2021.0399_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.6 KB] || NO2_US_2021.0399_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || w_labels (3840x2160) [32.0 KB] || NO2_US_2021_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [20.0 MB] || NO2_US_2021_2160p30.webm (3840x2160) [2.7 MB] || ",
            "hits": 71
        },
        {
            "id": 40170,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/air-quality/",
            "result_type": "Gallery",
            "release_date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Air Quality ",
            "description": "Air is all around us, but it’s hard to see when harmful particulates are, too. That’s why we use NASA’s Earth-observing satellites to track air quality on our home planet. The data they generate are incorporated into products like the U.S. Air Quality Index the public uses to make decisions that protect their health and well-being.",
            "hits": 104
        },
        {
            "id": 40323,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/applied-science/",
            "result_type": "Gallery",
            "release_date": "2017-03-30T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Applied Science",
            "description": "Discovering innovative and practical uses of Earth observations\n\nappliedsciences.nasa.gov",
            "hits": 73
        },
        {
            "id": 40317,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/vcearth-video-wall/",
            "result_type": "Gallery",
            "release_date": "2017-02-02T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "VC Earth Video Wall",
            "description": "list of videos to display on video wall in Earth science exhibit at Goddard Visitor Center",
            "hits": 6
        },
        {
            "id": 11719,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11719/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-11-17T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "A Year In The Life Of Earth’s CO2",
            "description": "An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe.Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the greenhouse gas away from its sources. The simulation also illustrates differences in carbon dioxide levels in the northern and southern hemispheres and distinct swings in global carbon dioxide concentrations as the growth cycle of plants and trees changes with the seasons.The carbon dioxide visualization was produced by a computer model called GEOS-5, created by scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.The visualization is a product of a simulation called a “Nature Run.” The Nature Run ingests real data on atmospheric conditions and the emission of greenhouse gases and both natural and man-made particulates. The model is then left to run on its own and simulate the natural behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere. This Nature Run simulates January 2006 through December 2006.While Goddard scientists worked with a “beta” version of the Nature Run internally for several years, they released this updated, improved version to the scientific community for the first time in the fall of 2014. || ",
            "hits": 229
        },
        {
            "id": 11611,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11611/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-07-17T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Briefing Materials: NASA Field Campaign to Probe Ocean Ecology, Carbon Cycle",
            "description": "NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 17, to discuss new fieldwork using coordinated ship and aircraft observations aimed at advancing the technology needed to measure microscopic plankton in the ocean from space.Press release: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-kicks-off-field-campaign-to-probe-ocean-ecology-carbon-cycle/Briefing SpeakersIntroduction 1: Paula Bontempi, ocean biology and biogeochemistry program scientist, NASA Headquarters, WashingtonIntroduction 2: Michael Behrenfeld, ocean plant ecologist, Oregon State University, CorvallisChris Hostetler, atmospheric scientist, NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, VirginiaJacek Chowdhary, research scientist, Columbia University, New YorkAlex Gilerson, ocean imager, City College of New YorkIvona Cetinic, ocean ecologist, University of Maine, WalpolePresenter 1: Paula Bontempi || ",
            "hits": 18
        },
        {
            "id": 11572,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11572/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-06-26T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Reduction Across the United States",
            "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite, averaged yearly from 2005-2011. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. || ",
            "hits": 76
        },
        {
            "id": 11573,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11573/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-06-26T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Reduction Across the Ohio River Valley",
            "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite, averaged yearly from 2005-2011. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. The impact of technology to reduce emissions of nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plants in the Ohio River Valley is apparent in satellite imagery, which shows the signal of pollution blink out over time. Still, while air quality is improving, power plant emissions of carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas – remain an issue. || ",
            "hits": 24
        },
        {
            "id": 11574,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11574/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-06-26T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Reduction Across the Northeast Corridor",
            "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite, averaged yearly from 2005-2011. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. Pollution builds up along the U.S. East Coast as it passes from one city to the next, particularly in the Northeast Corridor. These cities include Richmond, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston and all the smaller cities in between. Some of the largest absolute changes in nitrogen dioxide have occurred in this corridor. || ",
            "hits": 10
        },
        {
            "id": 11575,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11575/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-06-26T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Reduction Across the Northeast U.S.",
            "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite, averaged yearly from 2005-2011. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. Along the U.S. East Coast, the relatively flat landscape means almost everyone is downwind of someone else. If wind moves up from the southwest to northeast along the Eastern Seaboard, a so-called \"river of pollution\" builds up as pollution passes from one city to the next. || ",
            "hits": 13
        },
        {
            "id": 11576,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11576/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-06-26T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Nitrogen Dioxide Reduction in U.S. Cities",
            "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite. Images show how nitrogen dioxide concentrations during spring and summer months, averaged from 2005-2007, compare to the average from 2009-2011. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. || ",
            "hits": 12
        },
        {
            "id": 11579,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11579/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-06-26T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA Images Highlight U.S. Air Quality Improvement – Release Materials",
            "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This following visualizations show tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. || ",
            "hits": 30
        },
        {
            "id": 4179,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4179/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-06-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "US Air Quality",
            "description": "Anyone living in the U.S. for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in NASA satellite images that demonstrate the country's reduction of air pollution, or more specifically, nitrogen dioxide.Nitrogen dioxide can impact the respiratory system, and it also contributes to the formation of other pollutants including ground-level ozone and particulates. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Air pollution has decreased even though population and the number of cars on the roads have increased. The shift is the result of regulations, technology improvements and economic changes, scientists say.This visualization shows tropospheric column concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite, averaged yearly from 2005-2011. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations, ranging from 1e+15 to 5e+15 molecules per square centimeter, respectively. || ",
            "hits": 29
        },
        {
            "id": 30308,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30308/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcanic Complex, Chile",
            "description": "On June 4, 2011, a fissure opened in Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex, sending ash 45,000 feet (14,000 meters) into the air. This image, taken on June 11, 2011, shows the path of the volcanic ash plume. Winds blowing from the west carried the plume downwind, across Argentina and eventually reaching the South Atlantic Ocean. Clear skies allow the snow-covered Andes Mountains to be seen just north and south of the erupting volcano. The opposite is true for areas downwind of the volcano beneath the highest concentrations of volcanic ash. It is hard for even the tiniest bit of sunlight to penetrate the thick plume as revealed by the dark shadow cast on the earth's surface directly south of the plume. The width of the plume increases with increasing distance from the volcano as particulates disperse in the atmosphere. The zigzag path of the plume over Argentina suggests shifts in wind direction. East of the Andes, heavier volcanic ash sediment has settled on the land below, blanketing large portions of Argentina. It appears that some of the settled ash has been picked up again, this time by surface winds that may eventually carry the sediment out to sea. A high resolution image acquired 6 weeks later  shows ash covering the mountain slopes and pumice floating in lakes. || ",
            "hits": 22
        },
        {
            "id": 10977,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10977/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-05-24T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Paint By Particle",
            "description": "Satellites, balloon-borne instruments and ground-based devices make 30 million observations of the atmosphere each day. Yet these measurements still give an incomplete picture of the complex interactions within the membrane surrounding Earth. Enter climate models. Through mathematical experiments, modelers can move Earth forward or backward in time to create a dynamic portrait of the planet. Researchers from NASA Goddard's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office recently ran a simulation of the atmosphere that captured how winds whip aerosols around the world. Such simulations allow scientists to better understand how these tiny particulates travel in the atmosphere and influence weather and climate. In the visualization below, covering August 2006 to April 2007, watch as dust and sea salt swirl inside cyclones, carbon bursts from fires, sulfate streams from volcanoes—and see how these aerosols paint the modeled world. || ",
            "hits": 101
        },
        {
            "id": 3491,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3491/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2008-03-13T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Pacific Anthropogenic Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)  in 2003",
            "description": "According to measurements taken with a satellite instrument, vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from biomass burning in East Asia and Russia are traveling from one side of the globe to another. Explosive economic growth in Asia has profound implications for the atmosphere worldwide. Data collected by a NASA satellite shows a dense blanket of polluted air over the Northwestern Pacific. This brown cloud is a toxic mix of ash, acids, and airborne particles from car and factory emissions, as well as from low-tech polluters like coal-burning stoves and from forest fires. This image generated by data from NASA's instrument called MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) onboard the Terra satellite demonstrates how large and pervasive this transport phenomenon is across vast areas. China's exports fill shelves around the world, but according to a new NASA research paper, China also heavily exports pollution. This week, space agency scientists reveal how Chinese industrialization and Russian forest fires in combination with pollution transported eastward from Europe send roughly 18 teragrams - almost 40 billion pounds-of pollution aerosols into the atmosphere over the Northwestern Pacific every year. The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite has been tracking the particulate pollution for more than seven years, gathering data as most of it drifted east across the Pacific Ocean. About 4.5 teragrams of particulate pollution each year could reach the western boundary of North America, which is about 15% of local emissions of particulate pollutants from the U.S. and Canada. In the last two decades, China has more than doubled its pollution production. This boom may be contributing to substantial changes in climate and weather in places far from the origin of the particulates. Never in human history-anywhere-has there been industrial growth like that in modern China. But with fast growth comes unintended consequences, and from space evidence of those consequences is starting to emerge. The research relies on measurements of something called \"aerosol optical thickness\". It's a quantitative measurement about how well a slice of atmosphere transmits light. The greater the value of optical thickness for a given location, the less light of a particular wavelength can pass through it. Measurements of aerosol optical thickness describe quantities of tiny particles in a given volume. By measuring how much light can penetrate a region of atmosphere across a variety of wavelengths, scientists can make certain inferences about the quantity and type of particles blocking that light. This visualization shows the seasonal variations of transport of pollution aerosols across the North Pacific. The East Asian airstream carries its largest pollution loading in spring and smallest in summer and fall. With heavy concentrations of aerosols represented by shades of brown, scientists can track the origins and distribution of the particles as they travel in the atmosphere. The sequence also shows a trail of substantial aerosol concentrations from a variety of sources. These sources include heavy industrial activity in East Asia associated with high population density represented in this sequence by gradations of black covering the land surface, and intense Russian forest fires in high latitudes. || ",
            "hits": 22
        },
        {
            "id": 3075,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3075/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-12-09T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Biomass Burning over South America",
            "description": "Biomass burning is the burning of living and dead vegetation. It includes the human-initiated burning of vegetation for land clearing and land-use change as well as natural, lightning-induced fires. Scientists estimate that humans are responsible for about 90% of biomass burning with only a small percentage of natural fires contributing to the total amount of vegetation burned. Burning vegetation releases large amounts of particulates (solid carbon combustion particles) and gases, including greenhouse gases that help warm the Earth. Studies suggest that biomass burning has increased on a global scale over the last 100 years, and computer calculations indicate that a hotter Earth resulting from global warming will lead to more frequent and larger fires. Biomass burning particulates impact climate and can also affect human health when they are inhaled, causing respiratory problems. Here are three images of South America on October 7, 2004. The first image shows clouds and fires on that day. The second image is clouds and nitrous dioxide (NO2) concentrations in the stratosphere. The last image overlays the fires on the NO2 data. || ",
            "hits": 11
        },
        {
            "id": 2998,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2998/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-09-09T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "MODIS Data May Aid EPA Air Quality Predictions (Wide)",
            "description": "This visualization shows how MODIS data from NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft may be able to help EPA in producing air quality index forecasts.Currently, most air quality forecasts are generated from ground based measuring stations; however, these stations generally only exist in heavily populated areas. MODIS data may help EPA provide air quality forcasts over much wider areas and with higher accuracy. In this visualization, the EPA air quality data shows as the thin colored boxes sticking out from the surface. The MODIS data is represented by the colored overlay. An event that began over the northwestern US in September 2003 is shown propagating across the US and into the Midwest. Notice that the movement of the air mass is evident only from the MODIS data.This version of the animation shows a narrow view of the US. This animation was inspired by a similar animation created at the Langley Research Center. || ",
            "hits": 14
        },
        {
            "id": 2999,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2999/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-09-09T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "MODIS Data May Aid EPA Air Quality Predictions (Tight)",
            "description": "This visualization shows how MODIS data from NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft may be able to help EPA in producing air quality index forecasts.Currently, most air quality forecasts are generated from ground based measuring stations; however, these stations generally only exist in heavily populated areas. MODIS data may help EPA provide air quality forcasts over much wider areas and with higher accuracy. In this visualization, the EPA air quality data shows as the thin colored boxes sticking out from the surface. The MODIS data is represented by the colored overlay. An event that began over the northwestern US in September 2003 is shown propagating across the US and into the Midwest. Notice that the movement of the air mass is evident only from the MODIS data.This version of the animation shows a narrow view of the US. This animation was inspired by a similar animation created at the Langley Research Center. || ",
            "hits": 9
        },
        {
            "id": 2943,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2943/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-05-17T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Canadian Smoke Invades the East Coast",
            "description": "Smoke from multiple large wildfires in Canada blanketed the Great Lakes and eastern United States. The enormous smoke plume was almost 200 miles wide. The thick pall affected air quality from New York, to Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. and blocked the sunlight cooling the East Coast. The first image was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 7, 2002. The second image comes from NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on the Earth Probe Satellite. || ",
            "hits": 24
        },
        {
            "id": 20010,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20010/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2003-12-09T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Particulates Effect on Rainfall",
            "description": "Normal rainfall droplet creation involves water vapor condensing on particles in clouds.  The droplets eventually coalesce together to form drops large enough to fall to Earth.  However, as more and more pollution particles (aerosols) enter a rain cloud, the same amount of water becomes spread out.  These smaller water droplets float with the air and are prevented from coalescing and growing large enough for a raindrop.  Thus, the cloud yields less rainfall over the course of its liftime compared to a clean (non-polluted) cloud of the same size.  The split screen compares a normal rain producing cloud (left) with the lack of rain produced from a cloud full of aerosols from pollution. || ",
            "hits": 305
        },
        {
            "id": 2858,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2858/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2003-11-24T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "California Fires MODIS imagery and TOMS Aerosols from October 2003",
            "description": "This animation sequences through the MODIS imagery of the devastating Californian fires from October 23, 2003 through October 29, 2003. Then the animation resets to October 23, 2003 and zooms out to see the TOMS aerosol sequence. It clearly shows that the California fires had an impact on air quality as far east as Maine. || ",
            "hits": 12
        },
        {
            "id": 2114,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2114/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-04-18T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dust Storms of Asia",
            "description": "A series of dust clouds originating with distinct wind events over Asia two weeks ago, have made their way across the Pacific and spread a whitish haze across half of the U.S., sources say.Gene Feldman, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD said aircraft have been monitoring the particulates in the dust clouds.  Apparently, the dust clouds picked up industrial pollution from two of China's largest cities and are now blanketing the mid-Western United States with this matter.  Dr. Feldman said, \"At one time, the dust cloud was bigger than Japan.\"As early as 1998, scientists were claiming that industrial pollution from China was spreading to the United States where pollution in the U.S. was rising to two-thirds the federal health limits.  The current storm proves this theory to be true.  Pollution from Asia is reaching in the U.S. in alarming amounts.The particulates in the dust clouds that reduce visibility and cause respiratory problems have not been measured in such high volume since Mt. St. Helens erupted, and even then, the particulates did not reach the ground as they are in this case.The dust storms could even reach the Eastern U.S., but experts say they will probably dissipate as they move across the midwest. || ",
            "hits": 25
        }
    ]
}