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Wildfire Smoke Shrouds the U.S. West

An unusual amount of smoke from wildfires has spread across hundreds of miles.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using GOES 17 imagery courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published August 20, 2020
Data acquired August 20, 2020

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