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Shifting winds pushed smoke from a bushfire into the shape of the letter Z.


NASA image (top) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. NASA Earth Observatory image (bottom) by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published December 8, 2016
Data acquired December 7, 2016

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response