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NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires

The Wildhorse grass fire in eastern Idaho erupted with a massive pulse of smoke. No one had expected it, but the wildfire had launched what’s known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb.

Posted October 2, 2026

Clouds

Earth Observatory

Fire Cloud with a Pileus on Top

Scientists captured rare observations of an ephemeral pileus cloud hovering over a smoke-infused cloud that rose above a wildfire in Montana.

Posted September 29, 2026

Aqua

Earth Observatory

Peatland Fires Darken Skies in Indonesia

With Indonesia gripped by drought, fires are smoldering on the surface and underground.

Posted September 3, 2026

Aqua

Clouds

Earth Observatory

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah

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.

Posted August 17, 2026

Earth Observatory

International Space Station (ISS)

Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke

From the International Space Station, astronauts photographed Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as wildfire smoke spread across the Pacific Northwest in summer 2026.

Posted August 13, 2026

Earth Observatory

Terra

Smoke Streams Across Eastern Washington

Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations in Spokane.

Posted August 4, 2026

Earth Observatory

Destructive Fires Char Western Europe

Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.

Posted July 31, 2026

Earth Observatory

Smoke Blankets Oregon

Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.

Posted July 28, 2026

Earth Observatory

Goddard Space Flight Center

A Week of Smoky Skies Across North America

Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality in parts of the U.S. and Canada.

Posted July 22, 2026

Clouds

Earth

New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights

The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.

Posted July 20, 2026

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