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Fires continue to burn in southwestern Oregon on July 28, 2002. This imagew was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite, and shows active fire detections marked with red dots.
Image by Jesse Allen, based on data from MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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