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A blanket of smoke from fires in Siberia is so huge it can be seen from nearly 1 million miles away in space
It's a bit faint, but a smudge of smoke clearly is visible in the image below, captured by a spacecraft in deep space. The Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft hovers between the Earth and Sun, keeping a constant eye on our planet’s sunlit side from about a million miles away. Yet even from that extremely distant vantage point (called Lagrange Point 1), DSCOVR’S camera was able to discern a broad blanket of smoke from wildfires raging in Siberia.
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