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NOAA-20 Spies Volcanic Activity at Mount Etna
Mount Etna, the famous volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, has been spewing ash and red-hot chunks of lava known as “lava…
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Volcanic Ash Plume on Island Off Madagascar Seen by NOAA-20
The NOAA-20 satellite spied the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island, off the Eastern coast of Madagascar, erupting for…
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Smoke from Siberian wildfires reaches the Western U.S.
The Suomi-NPP Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) aerosol index shows smoke moving across eastern Russia into Alaska, down the west…
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NOAA Satellites Monitor Arctic Wildfires
This true-color composite image of smoke from Arctic wildfires spreading across Alaska and Canada was captured by both GOES East and…
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GOES West Observes Wildfires in Arizona
NOAA’s GOES West satellite zoomed in on two wildfires near Flagstaff, Ariz. on July 23, 2019. The Museum Fire , currently searing…
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Wildfire Smoke Gets Trapped in Low Pressure System Over Russia
Smoke from active wildfires burning across northern Russia got caught in a low pressure system near the Verkhne-Tazovsky State Natural…
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True color imagery of smoke and fire on the northern coast of Australia, as seen by NOAA-20, July 2019.
NOAA-20 Sees Plumes of Smoke From Bushfires
Clear skies over Australia on July 16, 2019, gave the NOAA-20 polar-orbiting satellite an unobstructed view of smoke plumes from…
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Dozens of Wildfires Burn Across Eastern Russia
Plumes of smoke from more than a dozen large, active wildfires burning northwest of Russia’s Lake Baikal are seen in this NOAA-20…