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Alternate Text: A plume of smoke stretches across the United States from California to beyond Lake Erie
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A plume of smoke stretches across the United States from California to beyond Lake Erie

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Stitched together from two separate satellite overpasses, this image shows a river of smoke from fires (marked with red) in the West stretching eastward more than a thousand miles across the United States. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on NASA image from Visible Earth.