Nasa Satellite Images Smoke
22 2020 captured a view that showed a pall of wildfire smoke covering most of.
Nasa satellite images smoke. An image of california featuring smoke produced by wildfires captured with nasa s earth observing system data and information system worldview application. Features of this site include. Sectoring animation of global images and at high resolution for a region of interest. Nasa noaa satellite suomi npp and modis aqua and terra provide continuous imagery for am at local 10 30am and pm at local 1 30pm.
Interactively zoom and animate weather satellite images from a variety of geostationary satellites. The satellite captured a stunning true color image of the wildfires across the u s. On august 20 nasa released the terra satellite imagery of the plumes of smokes from the california fires. Wildfire smoke hurricanes collide in satellite images from nasa nasa s earth observatory found that tropical cyclones helped steer the smoke plumes making their way across the united states.
Historical imagery is sourced from microsoft and esri. In a press release nasa shared an image that depicted the 1200 mile trail of smokes plaguing the california wildfires region that dispersed in the wind creating a blanket of haze. Hms fire and smoke data products are marked with the time stamp representing the corresponding satellite image acquisition observation time in universal time coordinated utc and date using the julian day calendar 0 365 day of year for regular years 0 366 for leap years. Nasa satellite images show impact of california wildfire smoke across us nasa s terra satellite on monday aug.
In order to obtain u s. The modis instrument on nasa s terra satellite captured this image of smoke from california wildfires blowing westward over the pacific ocean on sept. Obscuring the surface is a blanket of smoke from california to arkansas with a haze present over the east coast.