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Wildfires and smoke across Alaska and Northern Canada

Dense gray smoke blanketed Alaska and the Bering Strait on August 21, 2004, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. The smoke is pouring from widespread wildfires, which have been burning in Alaska’s interior and northern Canada since mid-June. On August 21 when this image was acquired, the Environmental Protection Agency had rated the air quality as hazardous for parts of Alaska.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published August 22, 2004
Data acquired August 21, 2004

Source:
Terra > MODIS