Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Earth Observatory Collection
Title:
Smoke from Alaskan Fires over Louisiana
Description:
This image of the southern United States from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MO DIS) on NASA’s Ter ra satellite is a picture-perfect example of what meteorologists mean when they describe the atmosphere as a fluid. In the center of the image, an airborne river of smoke from fires raging across Alaska is flowing down the Mississippi River corridor and spreading out across the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, at the bottom of the scene. Thick smoke hangs over Louisiana (bottom center) as well as Texas, to the west, and Arkansas to the north. MODIS captured the image on July 19, 2004.

NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MOD IS Rapid Response Team at GSFC
Satellite - Sensor:
Terra- MODIS
facet_what:
Terra
facet_where:
Texas
facet_where:
Alaska
facet_where:
Louisiana
facet_where:
Gulf of Mexico
facet_where:
Arkansas
facet_where:
Mississippi
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
United States of America
facet_when:
July 19, 2004
facet_when_year:
2004
UID:
SPD-ETOBS-12257
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Smoke from Alaskan Fires over Louisiana