NASA: Portrait of a Polluted Atmosphere

Juan Cole 12/15/2012

From NASA: portrait of global aerosols (particulate matter in the atmosphere, including pollution):

Note that the image is a simulation created with high-powered software to make the aerosols we (and sometimes nature) put into the atmosphere clear.

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page