The ‘Place of Blue Smoke’

The Cherokee Indians called these dark, fog-streaked hills “Shaconage”— the “Place of Blue Smoke.”

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published January 22, 2017
Data acquired 1986 - 2013

Sources:

Landsat 5 > TM

Landsat 7 > ETM+

Collection:

U.S. National Parks