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Fires in Lebanon

Earth Science Division Editorial Team

Mar 03, 2019
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The Oct. 8 image shows a portion of Lebanon before the wildfires of mid-October 2019. The burn scars they left are visible as brown patches at the bottom of the Oct. 18 image. North of the scars is Beirut, the country's capital, where protesters set numerous fires, seen in the later image as red dots. Images taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A satellite. Source: U.S. Geological Survey’s National Land Imaging Image Collections
The Oct. 8 image shows a portion of Lebanon before the wildfires of mid-October 2019. The burn scars they left are visible as brown patches at the bottom of the Oct. 18 image. North of the scars is Beirut, the country's capital, where protesters set numerous fires, seen in the later image as red dots. Images taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A satellite. Source: U.S. Geological Survey’s National Land Imaging Image Collections
The Oct. 8 image shows a portion of Lebanon before the wildfires of mid-October 2019. The burn scars they left are visible as brown patches at the bottom of the Oct. 18 image. North of the scars is Beirut, the country's capital, where protesters set numerous fires, seen in the later image as red dots. Images taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A satellite. Source: U.S. Geological Survey’s National Land Imaging Image Collections
The Oct. 8 image shows a portion of Lebanon before the wildfires of mid-October 2019. The burn scars they left are visible as brown patches at the bottom of the Oct. 18 image. North of the scars is Beirut, the country's capital, where protesters set numerous fires, seen in the later image as red dots. Images taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A satellite. Source: U.S. Geological Survey’s National Land Imaging Image Collections

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Fires in Lebanon

Oct. 8, 2019 - Oct. 18, 2019

The Oct. 8 image shows a portion of Lebanon before the wildfires of mid-October 2019. The burn scars they left are visible as brown patches at the bottom of the Oct. 18 image. North of the scars is Beirut, the country's capital, where protesters set numerous fires, seen in the later image as red dots. Images taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A satellite. Source: U.S. Geological Survey’s National Land Imaging Image Collections

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