Smoke Over Western United States - related image preview

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Smoke Over Western United States

SeaWiFS has been seeing a fair bit of smoke over the western U.S.A. and Canada lately. The three most noticeable smokey areas in this image are: east of Lake Winnipeg, the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, and eastern Montana.


Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Published July 30, 2000
Data acquired July 30, 2000

Source:
OrbView-2 > SeaWiFS
Topics:
Atmosphere > Aerosols > Dust/Ash
Human Dimensions > Environmental Impacts > Biomass Burning
Collection:
Visible Earth