Visible Earth: Smoke Over Western United States

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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

SeaWiFS has been seeing a fair bit of smoke over the western U.S.A. and Canada lately. The three most noticeable smokey areas in this image are: east of Lake Winnipeg, the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, and eastern Montana.

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2000-07-30

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Smoke Over Western United States

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