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Canadian Fires Send Smoke Over the U.S.

An unusually thick plume of smoke from wildfires in Alberta, Canada, wafted across U.S. Midwest and eastern states.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Canadian Fires Send Smoke Over the U.S..

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Terra MODIS data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) and Suomi NPP OMPS data courtesy of Colin Seftor (SSAI). Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 11, 2015
Data acquired June 9, 2015

Sources:: Suomi NPP > OMPS; Terra > MODIS