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Fires in Canada's Prairie Provinces

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2024-06-27 12:00:00
June 27, 2002

Smoke from fires in Saskatchewan (left) and Manitoba (right) is spreading across central Canada on June 27, 2002. This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

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Image courtesy Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Center , University of Wisconsin-Madison

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