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Smoke over the Midwestern U.S. and Canada

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2024-08-22 12:00:00
August 22, 2003

This true-color image shows smoke spreading eastward over a large region in the midwestern United States and Canada. The smoke was generated from a number of intense wildfires burning to the west in both countries. This scene was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite, on Aug. 22, 2003.

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Image by Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, based upon data courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team at Goddard Space Flight Center

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