A Smoky May for North America

Fierce fires in Canada are the source of smoke that has swirled across much of the continent.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC and data from DSCOVR EPIC. Story by Adam Voiland, with information from Colin Seftor (SSAI), David Peterson (USNRL), Jessica McCarty (NASA Ames), and Michael Fromm (USNRL).

Published May 24, 2023
Data acquired May 5 - 22, 2023

Sources:

DSCOVR > EPIC

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Collection:

Air Quality