NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the sky—towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus.
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Aqua, Clouds, Earth Observatory, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Wildfires
Posted on
August 17, 2026
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