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Smoke Goes Around the World

Wildfires in Alaska and Canada send smoke plumes wafting in opposite directions around the Northern Hemisphere.


NASA Earth Observatory 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 Kathryn Hansen.

Published July 18, 2015
Data acquired July 1 - 14, 2015

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Suomi NPP > OMPS