The Egley Complex Fire in Oregon topped 100,000 acres over the weekend of July 14, 2007. According to the morning report from the National Interagency Fire Center on July 16, the blaze was estimated to be 101,000 acres and 45 percent contained. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the fire on Sunday, July 15. Places where the sensor detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. Thick smoke blows to the northeast. Bright white clouds stretch across the scene in the same direction.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the western United States in additional resolutions and formats.
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NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
