This Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) image pair shows"before and after" views of the area aroundthe Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington. On June 27,2000, a fire in the dry sagebrush was sparked by an automobile crash.The flames were fanned by hot summer winds. By the day after theaccident, about 100,000 acres had burned, and the fire's spread forcedthe closure of highways and loss of homes.
These images were obtained by MISR'svertical-viewing (nadir) camera. Compare the area just above and to theright of the line of cumulus clouds in the May 15 image with the samearea imaged on August 3. The darkened burn scar measures approximately35 kilometers across. The Columbia River is seen wending its way aroundHanford.
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Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Science Team
