from space showing a smoky Pacific Northwest region on 19 August 2009 in a true-color image (click to enlarge.) Smoke from fires burning in British Columbia, Canada (red dots on enlarged image) obscures Vancouver Island, the Puget Sound lowland and parts of eastern Washington.Perhaps more interesting, from a geological perspective, the channeled scablands scoured by repeated outburst flooding from Glacial Lake Missoula in western Montana during the Pleistocene appear in stark contrast against the tan-colored farm fields in eastern Washington.
Image credit: NASA's Aqua satellite, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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