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Robert Lea

Canadian wildfire smoke dims the vision of Earth-observing satellites (photos)

Satellite photo showing Providence, Rhode Island, obscured by a thick haze of wildfire smoke.

A smoky haze from over 400 wildfires currently burning in Canada is obscuring the view of numerous Earth-observing satellites.

Wildfire smoke from Canada often passes over the northeastern United States each year but goes noticed, NASA officials have noted. But that hasn't been the case over the past few days, when huge amounts of smoke from fires in Quebec have poured south into the eastern U.S.

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