NASA satellites monitor western wildfires from space

As soot-covered firefighters face the billowing roar and crackle of the convulsing

flames on Earth, NASA’s Earth Probe satellite hangs in the silence of space

monitoring the plumes of smoke 740 km below.

Every few hours, a global map of smoke and other aerosols detected by Earth

Probe are updated at the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) web site.