Canadian Smoke Invades the East Coast

  • Released Monday, May 17, 2004
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Smoke from multiple large wildfires in Canada blanketed the Great Lakes and eastern United States. The enormous smoke plume was almost 200 miles wide. The thick pall affected air quality from New York, to Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. and blocked the sunlight cooling the East Coast. The first image was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 7, 2002. The second image comes from NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on the Earth Probe Satellite.

Canadian Smoke from July 7th, 2002.

The East Coast of the United States. Blue Marble data set with state lines and country boundaries.

The East Coast of the United States. Blue Marble data set with state lines and country boundaries.

Terra-MODIS dataset from July 7th, 2002. Data is co-registered to the Blue Marble dataset.

Terra-MODIS dataset from July 7th, 2002. Data is co-registered to the Blue Marble dataset.

TOMS Aerosals dataset from July 7th, 2002, overlaid the Terra-MODIS dataset.

TOMS Aerosals dataset from July 7th, 2002, overlaid the Terra-MODIS dataset.

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See http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0517aura.html

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This page was originally published on Monday, May 17, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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