Smog Instead of Clouds (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Smog Instead of Clouds

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Smog instead of clouds: The many forest fires (red dots) in the lower area of a satellite image of South America, which caused high aerosol loads in the atmosphere, so that no clouds were able to form.

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NASA

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