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Smoke Spreading from Greece to Africa

Besides laying waste to huge areas of forest, fires burning in Greece in August 2007 released pollutants that traveled across the Mediterranean Sea and into Africa.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Smoke Spreading from Greece to Africa.

Image courtesy Omar Torres, OMI Science Team, and Colin Seftor, NASA NPP Science Team.

Published August 31, 2007
Data acquired August 26 - 27, 2008

Source:: Aura > OMI