The red contour is the dense smoke near the west coast a satellite image shows smoke from the western wildfires stretching as far east as michigan.
Satellite view of west coast fires at night.
Two images taken shortly after midnight local california time 0713 utc 12 13 a m.
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9 2020 by the modis instrument on nasa s terra satellite.
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I didn t think the satellite images of the west coast fires could get more jaw dropping and alarming.
At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to.
The smoke has been wrapped at least 1 000 miles west into a cyclone and.
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That s a distance of nearly 2 000 miles.
Pdt on sunday show several places where the active fires were likely occurring that night.
During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space.
Geocolor is a multispectral product composed of true color using a simulated green component during the daytime and an infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night.
The national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa posted a satellite video friday that shows smoke taking over the entire west coast as massive wildfires burn across multiple states.
Nasa s terra satellite captured this image of the west coast of the united states showing the breadth of the fire issues plaguing that area of the country.
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