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This view of the fires in the western United States, collected on June 10, 2002, by the Sea-Viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS) showsseveral of the larger smoke plumes as wellas a band of smoke over Nebraska and theDakotas that appears to be getting pulled into a low pressure system centered over northernMontana.
Image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project , NASA GSFC, and ORBIMAGE
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