Posted on 08/12/2021 12:36:47 PM PDT by EBH
Santa Claus isn't supposed to see smoke. For the first time in recorded history, hazy smoke from raging wildfires in the Arctic has reached the North Pole, and NASA satellites have the images to prove it.
On Aug. 6, the space agency's MODIS, an imaging sensor on the Aqua satellite, captured true-color images of what NASA called a "vast, thick, and acrid blanket of smoke" that clouded the North Pole. The smoke originated from enormous blazes in the Siberian region of northern Russia.
According to China's Xinhua news agency, the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar was blanketed in "white smoke," NPR reported. The republic of Yakutia – home to Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited place on Earth – has also been shrouded in smoke, as captured by MODIS images on Aug. 8.
The thick smoke in Yakutia sent air quality measurements in recent weeks plummeting to an extreme category dubbed "airpocalypse," a category described by officials to have "immediate and heavy effects on everybody," The Guardian reported.
In the images captured on Aug. 6, that "airpocalypse" inducing smoke was shown to have traveled 1,864 miles from Yakutia to the North Pole, according to NASA.
"The smoke, which was so thick that most of the land below was obscured from view, stretches about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from east to west and 2,500 miles (4,000 km) from south to north," the agency wrote. "But it captures only a small part of the smoke from the Russian fires."
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I bet this isn’t really the “first time ever.” Just the first time sophisticated satellites have tracked it.
The Earth has been around for a long time. I doubt this is the first time.
Sensationalist hyperbole is distracting and detracting.
But all propaganda all the time.
FIRST TIME EVER
Ever?
Wow! My great, great, great grandfather’s video camera back in 1864 could even pick up the smoke from the burning of Atlanta!
Could be terrorists starting many of these wildfires
VHS or Beta?
“Airpocalypse” or just a crock-a-sh*t?
LOL, it probably would have been Beta...recorded on to the thin intestines of some animal sliced into strips...
“But it captures only a small part of the smoke from the Russian fires.”
Russia is on fire, too? What’s with all the mismanaged commie hell-holes bursting into flames these days?
It’s called wind....
No, for the first time since satellites were able to observe the North Pole, which means the 1960s.
I thought Santa smoked Lucky Strikes?
Frosty had the corn cob pipe with prince Albert in a can.
I don’t know who’s on first......
First time in “recorded” “history”. Lots of wiggle room in there.
Reel to reel.
Well, Rush always said liberalism is a mental disease.
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