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Users of these images are deemed to have read and accepted the conditions described in the copyright declaration below. The two images below are colour-enhanced combined visible and infrared views of a low pressure system and associated cloud band covering southeastern Australia and the Tasman Sea. The image has been false coloured enhanced to depict the smoke plumes from the NSW Bush Fires. The three channels were then combined so as to achieve sufficient colouring contrast for the smoke plumes to be detectable over both land and sea. The GMS-5 image provided shows the full disk of the earth, as viewed form the satellite's orbital location 36,000 km above the equator.