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China's biggest holiday, the Lunar New Year, prompts a mass migration as tens of millions travel home. In 2008, however, travel proved nearly impossible. Snow storms closed roads and railroads across eastern, central, and southern China, reported BBC News. This image, captured by the MODIS on the morning of January 29, 2008, shows how extensive the unusual snow cover was. From north to south, nearly the entire country is covered in snow. Unlike a photo, which uses the visible light that the human eye sees, this image includes both infrared light and visible light to provide a contrast between snow and clouds. Snow is red-orange, while clouds are white and peach. Some of the worst-affected provinces, such as Guangdong along the southern coast, were still under cloud cover when MODIS captured this image. Other areas, such as the North China Plain, are snow-free. The ground is green-blue, the shade of bare or sparsely vegetated earth in this type of image. The snow storms started on January 10, spreading snow over 14 provinces and affecting approximately 80 million people.
