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Fires and Heavy Smoke in Alaska

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Jun 19, 2002
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Fires and Heavy Smoke in Alaska
June 18, 2002

Thick smoke from area forest fires filled the sky over much of central Alaska yesterday and was captured in this iamge from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) on June 18, 2002.

This SeaWiFS image also shows dark brown wateraround the Yukon River Delta. Farther offshorebetween the delta and St Lawrence Island, thewater becomes so highly absorbing in the visible part of the spectrum that the water looks black in this image.

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Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project , NASA GSFC, and ORBIMAGE

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