Eastern China
Flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this clear view of the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China on May 6, 2004. Sprawling gray patches show this to be a densely populated region of China. The city of Shanghai is the large concrete-colored area nearest the point where the Yangtze spills into the East China Sea. To its left is Lake Tai. Numerous other gray regions mark nearby cities. Sediment carried from the river colors the Sea tan near the shore. As the sediment diffuses, the water becomes a milky green, which eventually fades into the deep blue of clearer water.
