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Fires Ravage Kangaroo Island

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Jan 09, 2020
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On January 9, 2020, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired natural-color observations of burned land and thick smoke covering Australia’s Kangaroo Island. According to news reports, at least 156,000 hectares (600 square miles, nearly one-third of the land area) have burned and 50 homes have been destroyed on the island of 4,700 people.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

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