As the covid-19 pandemic grinds the global economy to a halt satellite images show a sharp dropoff off of air pollution across the United States.

Earther has produced an interactive map that shows the changes in air pollution across the globe. The Google Earth map pulls collected data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P satellite showing the nitrogen dioxide, which is a good proxy for human activity.

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