Wildfire Smoke
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Long-Distance Traveler
This satellite image, acquired by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite from NASA in January of 2007, shows smoke from bushfires streaming out from fires burning in Canada. Far-traveling smoke from some North American wildfires appears to have the net effect of cooling surface temperatures in the Arctic, by reducing the amount of sunlight that makes it through the atmosphere.
 
 
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