Wildfires Send Smoke Across the United States

Satellite sensors track aerosols from the U.S. West Coast to the Great Lakes in mid-August 2012.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Wildfires Send Smoke Across the United States.

NASA image by Jesse Allen, using Suomi NPP OMPS data provided courtesy of Colin Seftor (SSAI). Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published August 19, 2012
Data acquired August 14 - 16, 2012

Source:: Suomi NPP > OMPS