Australian Smoke Plume Sets Records - related image preview

720 x 425
PNG

Australian Smoke Plume Sets Records - related image preview

2880 x 1439
423 KB - JPEG

Australian Smoke Plume Sets Records - related image preview

720 x 278
PNG

Australian Smoke Plume Sets Records - related image preview

720 x 300
PNG

Australian Smoke Plume Sets Records

Potent wildfires sent one of the largest plumes of smoke higher into the stratosphere than certain satellites have ever observed.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) data courtesy of Hugh Pumphrey/University of Edinburgh, and CALIPSO data from NASA/CNES. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published January 31, 2020
Data acquired January 26, 2020

Sources:
Aura > MLS
CALIPSO > CALIOP