NASA Satellite Tracks Carbon Monoxide Spreading From California Wildfires To Great Lakes, Canada

PASADENA (CBSLA) — Carbon monoxide from California’s wildfires is more than 10 times the typical amounts, a NASA satellite has observed.
(credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, aboard the Aqua satellite, captured infrared images of carbon monoxide plumes coming from the 28 major wildfires burning across the state as of Monday. Carbon monoxide concentrations show up as dark red on NASA’s animation, and the plume starts out concentrated over the West