By: Vivek J
January 18 2020
True: The smoke caused by the Australian bushfire has reached halfway around the world and polluted the stratosphere.
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Reports published on the official NASA and the NASA Earth Observatory websites confirm that the smoke is entering the earth's stratosphere.
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Reports published on the official NASA and the NASA Earth Observatory websites confirm that the smoke is entering the earth's stratosphere.National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has published a report along with the UV aerosol index of the smoke from the Australian bushfires and the effects it is having on a global scale. The report says that the smoke has reached a height of about 9.3 miles and has entered the earth's stratosphere. It also says that the smoke has caused some negative impact and that it has reached as far as South America (refer to the UV aerosol data). NASA's earth observatory has also published a report on 6 January 2020 which claims that the smoke from the Australian bushfire as observed by the CALIPSO satellite, has reached heights of 15 to 19 kilometres and entered the earth's stratosphere. It also reports that the visualisation from the CALIPSO satellite shows the smoke being spread across the pacific ocean.
