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Smoke Blankets Moscow

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Aug 01, 2002
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July 30, 2002

A number of wildfires burning in southwestern Russia filled the skies over Moscow with a thick pall of smoke on July 30-31, 2002. This true-color scene was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, on July 30.

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

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