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Korea and the Sea of Japan are obscured by swirls of pollution in this
image taken by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on
November 23, 2001.
Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project,
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
On February 6, 2007, thick haze blew across the Yellow Sea and the Korean Peninsula toward Japan. In this image, the band of haze appears to narrow somewhat as it crosses over South Korea, then spreads out over the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
