Black snow in Prokopyevsk

Sentinel-2 snow-ice

Simon Gascoin, 18 février 2019

The snow cover is not always white. Sometimes it is orange, sometimes it is black. The images below were captured by Sentinel-2 in Prokopyevsk, Russia.According to the Siberian Times the deposition of black dust on snow in February 2019 was due to the failure of a filtering system in a coal processing plant. Looking at the picture below, I have the feeling that this kind of event was not exceptional in Prokopyevsk this winter…

Pictures from Kemerovo region by Orlovprklife, Willravilov, Typical Kemerovo

Thanks to François Tuzet for pointing this to me!

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