Eastern China
These unusually clear true- and false-color images of Eastern China were acquired on January 28, 2003, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. In this image, the great Yangtze River (known as the Chang Jiang in Mandarin Chinese) twists its way to an ending in between the Yellow (north) and East China (south) Seas. Just south of where the Yangtze empties its waters sits the city of Shanghai. In the false-color image, black represents water, white and light turquoise-blue represent clouds, greens and browns represent land, and bright-blue is sediments washed into the sea or perhaps churned up by tides.
