Satellite Image of Smoke from Arizona Fire (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Satellite Image of Smoke from Arizona Fire

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On July 4, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard Suomi NPP provided a visible image of the forest. The VIIRS image showed a large thick plume of light brown colored smoke blowing to the northeast. VIIRS also detected heat signatures of the fire and that appears in a red color on the image.

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NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)/NOAA

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