File:2018-08-04 Wildfire Smoke Across Western US.jpg

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English: NASA/NOAA satellite imagery from August 4, 2018 showing smoke from California fires blowing eastward. Smoke plumes drifted across Nevada into Idaho and Utah and beyond. Fire locations are shown as red dots and were detected using data from the Suomi NPP satellite. The imagery is from the VIIRS sensor also on the Suomi NPP satellite.
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Camera location39° 00′ 00″ N, 115° 00′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Satellite imagery from August 4, 2018 showing smoke from California fires blowing eastward

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current17:39, 25 July 2021Thumbnail for version as of 17:39, 25 July 20211,897 × 1,200 (394 KB)JacobkhedUploaded a work by Generated in WorldView using NASA data from https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-131.06293204725435,32.09959064462705,-99.76499594949853,47.210625416824776&l=VIIRS_SNPP_Thermal_Anomalies_375m_All,Reference_Labels_15m,Reference_Features_15m,Coastlines_15m,VIIRS_NOAA20_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden)&lg=true&t=2018-08-04-T17%3A22%3A...

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