{"id":1264,"date":"2010-10-14T09:43:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2010-10-14T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:46:34","slug":"move-over-great-wall-chinas-smog-is-also-visible-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/culture\/move-over-great-wall-chinas-smog-is-also-visible-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over, Great Wall: China&#8217;s smog is also visible from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1265\" title=\"china_smog\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/china_smog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>NASA satellites have captured images of China blanketed in pollution. <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This image was <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=46375&amp;src=twitter-iotd\" target=\"_blank\">taken<\/a> early this month when a band of smog collected around Beijing and 11 eastern provinces following the onset of a high-pressure weather system. The milky white and grey band throughout the centre of the image is smog and fog. Brighter white clouds are visible at either side.<\/p>\n<p>By October 9, pollution in the capital had grown so poor the nation&#8217;s National Environmental Monitoring Centre declared it &#8220;hazardous&#8221;. China&#8217;s air quality is notoriously poor, with many major cities \u2014 particularly those around Beijing and the industrial hub of Shenzhen, in the south \u2014 frequently swimming in a dense mist of smog.<\/p>\n<p>Weather experts say the event was likely caused by a number of emissions from agricultural burning, factories and car fumes as well as a lack of air-moving weather features such as wind and rain cells.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=46375&amp;src=twitter-iotd\" target=\"blank\">NASA<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA satellites have captured images of China blanketed in pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,6,36,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-nature","category-news","category-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}