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Northern California fires as seen from 1,000,000 miles away

earth satellite smoke

This is what smoke from the fires in northern California looks like as seen from the Earth Polychromatic Camera on the DSCOVR spacecraft orbiting a million miles away. (via @SanGasso and NASA) 

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