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A blanket of smoke from fires in Siberia is so huge it can be seen from nearly 1 million miles away in space
2016-07-24 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discover Magazine: It`s a tad faint, but a smudge of smoke is clearly visible in the image below, captured by a spacecraft in deep space This image was acquired by the EPIC camera on NOAA`s DSCOVR spacecraft when it was 975,074 miles from Earth on July 21, 2016. Bluish-gray wildfire smoke over Siberia can be seen within the circled area. Make sure to click the image to open it in a new window, and then click on it again to enlarge it. (Source: http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ) The Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft...
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