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Smoke Over the Mid-Atlantic

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Jun 11, 2015
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2015-06-10 00:00:00
June 10, 2015

Smoke from wildfires in Canada made its way into the United States. On June 10, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color view of the smoke plume as it passed over the Mid-Atlantic region.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

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