Satellite Animation Shows Smoke from California's Springs Fire (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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On May 3, 2013, the GOES infrared and visible imagery were combined to create an animation that showed the plume of smoke from California's Springs fire. The smoke plume is seen blowing west and out over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The animation runs 17 seconds and shows the smoke plume from May 3 at 1415 to 2000 UTC (10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT) was created by the NASA GOES Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

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NASA GOES Project/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Dennis Chesters

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