Offering a more panoramic perspective from space, several NASA satellites observed the long gray plume of smoke drifting along the coast from the smoldering Twin Towers. The spacecraft included Terra, the flagship of a fleet of space agency orbiters monitoring the world environment. Terra took the photograph a few hours after the attack. In the color-enhanced image, the dark blue colors depict the streaming smoke while the light blues represent concrete surfaces. The picture was snapped from a height of between 600 and 900 miles, according to NASA.

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