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Satellite View of Rim Fire On August 25, 2013
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On August 25, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image of the drought-fueled Rim fire burning in central California, near Yosemite National Park. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Winds blew a thick smoke plume toward the northeast. A smaller fire—American fire—burned to the north.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSatellite View of Rim Fire On August 25, 2013. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001383.
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