Haze over Utah
Haze over Utah
11 September 2007
Haze clouded the skies over the southwestern United States, especially Utah, on8 September 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the pale colors dominating western Utah result partly from the light hues of the underlying ground surface, but a substantial gray-beige mass hangs in the atmosphere. The haze is thick enough to almost completely obscure the view of the Great Salt Lake.
TERRA
8 September 2007
Although the exact origin of Utahs early September haze was not clear, it could have resulted from smoke released by fires to the west, perhaps in California.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters perpixel.
(source: EarthObservatory)
