
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite captured this visible image of smoke from California's Colby Fire on January 16 at 20:29 UTC/3:29 p.m. EST. The smoke was blowing to the southwest over the Eastern Pacific Ocean. According to Inciweb, the multi-agency fire Incident Information System, the fire began around 6 a.m. PST, and by today, January 17, over 1,709 acres had been consume...
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