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Happy Camp Complex Fire, California

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2014-09-07 00:00:00
September 7, 2014

On September 7, 2014, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the Happy Camp Complex fire burning in Klamath National Forest. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire.

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  2. InciWeb (2014, September 8) Happy Camp Complex. Accessed September 8, 2014

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NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Adam Voiland.

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