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On October 17, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite...
A thick layer of haze blanketed the North China Plain on October 9, 2014, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging...
On Sept. 22 at 0923 UTC/5:23 a.m. EDT, just south of Usagi's eye where rain was falling at a rate of over 169mm/~6.7...
This simulated 3-D flyby animation over Typhoon Usagi on Sept. 22 at 0923 UT showed heavy rain south of the center a...
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite...
Chinese authorities shut down much of Harbin – a city of more than 10 million people – as unusually high levels of...
STS007-05-245 (18-24 June 1983) --- A rare view of internal waves in the South China Sea. Several different series...
Acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft, this image shows a mine in Baiyun Ebo, Inner Mongolia, China, the site of almost...
These spaceborne radar images show a segment of the Great Wall of China in a desert region of north-central China,...
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color...
NASA image acquired May 17, 2011 Located in China’s resource-rich but moisture-poor Xinjiang autonomous region, Lop...
The skies over northern China were shrouded with a thick haze in late December, 2013. The Moderate Resolution...
Image taken 5/2/2002 by ASTER: A vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between the Kunlun and...
This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows Poyang Lake, which was once China largest freshwater lake.
This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows Beihai, a city in the south of Guangxi, People republic of China.
On Nov. 10 at 03:30 UTC/Nov. 9 at 10:30 p.m. EDT, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite showed the...
The objective of NASA Shuttle Imaging Radar A SIR-A was to observe the Earth by use of radar imagery, acquire and...
In Heilongjiang province, northeast China, shade covers shelter farmed ginseng from the effects of direct sunlight....
In the northeast Sichuan province of China lies the Sichuan Basin, surrounded by mountains on all sides and drained...
This ASTER sub-image covers a 12 x 12 km area in northern Shanxi Province, China, and was acquired January 9, 2001....
On Saturday, Sept. 21, TRMM captured rainfall data on Typhoon Usagi as it passed between the northern Philippines...
S66-54839 (14 Sept. 1966) --- China, India, and Nepal, looking east, as seen from the Gemini-11 spacecraft during...
In far western China is Xinjiang Prefecture, with its capital of Kashgar (bottom right on image). The area has a...
STS059-220-041 (9-20 April 1994) --- View to the south by southwest across the southern Gobi Desert (China) across...