January 3, 2006
Wildfires raced across the grasslands of Oklahoma and northern Texas in late 2005 and early 2006. Extremely dry, windy conditions created a fire hazard, and several small towns were devastated as out-of-control fires sped across the landscape. This false-color image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on January 3, 2006, shows the plains of Oklahoma between Tulsa (upper right) and Oklahoma City (left) dotted with burn scars from recent fires (brownish red patches).
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NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images of this region.
