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Fires Scorch Oregon

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Aug 09, 2002
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Fires Scorch Oregon
August 7, 2002

Clear skies over the West Coast on Wednesday, August 7, 2002, revealed forest fires (red dots) still raging in southwestern and south-central Oregon. A smoke plume from the Florence and Sour Biscuit Fires drifts southward over the Pacific Ocean. This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.

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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

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