Terra Image of Smoke and Fires in U.S. Western States (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Terra Image of Smoke and Fires in U.S. Western States

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In this side-by-side image above, the left side image shows the areas (marked in red) where the wildfires are currently burning in the West. Copious amounts of smoke spill off the coast and into the Pacific Ocean. The right side, however, shows the real story of the danger that smoke poses.

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