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   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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