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Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)

The visible smoke imagery is overlaid with active fire detections in red, derived from NASA MODIS thermal anomaly data. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this imagery showing smoke from the California fires covering a region approximately 1,214 miles wide on August 20th, 2020.

California wildfires 2020 map