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The smoke from US West Coast wildfires is visible from nearly 1 million miles away (photo) – Space.com

The West Coast’s wounds are visible from very far afield.

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NASA’s EPIC camera aboard the NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft captured this photo on Sept. 9, 2020. A thick pall of smoke from the West Coast wildfires hovers over the Pacific Ocean, just off the West Coast. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory)
The smoke wafting from the wildfires raging across the Western United States
is a wrenching sight, even from nearly a million miles away.
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera
(EPIC) captured a dramatic shot of the smoke on Wedn…

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