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In southern California, firefighters continue to battle the 120,000-acre McNalley Fire (red dots) in the Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The fire was 70 percent contained as of the morning of August 11,2002, the day this image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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