Pyrocumulus cloud billows from New Mexico fire

On June 12, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the Silver fire burning east of Silver City, N.M. In addition to producing gray smoke plumes, the fire spawned a pyrocumulus cloud -- a tall, cauliflower-shaped cloud that billowed up above the smoke.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/nsf...