Smoke Plume Over Eastern Canada

In late May, a massive smoke plume hundreds of kilometers across blew eastward over New Brunswick toward the Atlantic Ocean. By the time MODIS took this picture, the smoke appeared to have completely detached itself from the source, a large fire burning in southwestern Quebec, beyond the western edge of this image.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Smoke Plume Over Eastern Canada.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.

Published May 30, 2007
Data acquired May 26, 2007

Source:: Terra > MODIS