
Credit:
Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA GSFC, and ORBIMAGE
This view of the fires in the western United States, collected on June 10, 2002, by the Sea-Viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS) shows several of the larger smoke plumes as well as a band of smoke over Nebraska and the Dakotas that appears to be getting pulled into a low pressure system centered over northern Montana.
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Metadata
Sensor:
OrbView-2 - SeaWiFSData Date:
June 10, 2002Visualization Date:
June 14, 2002

