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Smoke from Canadian fires over the Atlantic Ocean
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Generally the old saying “where there is smoke, there is fire” rings true, but when thick, hot smoke rises high aloft into the atmosphere it may travel hundreds, sometimes thousands of kilometers away from the source. This was the case on July 6, 2013 when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument flying on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this true-color image of a thick river of smoke curling across the Atlantic Ocean.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSmoke from Canadian fires over the Atlantic Ocean. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001426.
