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Photograph (35 mm, standard color film) from the Space Shuttle Discovery (2000), 35 mm, from a position over the Atlantic, of the coast inland toward North Carolina and Virginia.

On October 23, 2000, high pressure centered over the northeastern U.S. had created a capping inversion for aerosols. Forest fire smoke and industrial air pollution accumulated under the inversion. The inversion pattern is stronger inland, and the aerosols are being banked against the Piedmont. Relatively clearer air is flowing from the ocean over the Carolina coastal plain. Small smoke plumes from individual fires can also be seen on the ground stretching from central Virginia to Raleigh, NC.

               - Earth From Space website