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On July 31, 2003, Ikonos captured this high-resolution image of southwestern British Columbia’s Chilko Lake Fire still smoldering. Surrounded by a large purplish-gray burned area, an isolated area of green vegetation (center) is harboring several actively burning areas, from which smoke plumes drift eastward.
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Image courtesy Space Imaging.
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