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Rim Fire, California

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Aug 27, 2013
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2013-08-26 00:00:00
August 26, 2013

On August 26, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the Rim fire burning in and near Yosemite National Park. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire.

  1. Further Reading

  2. InciWeb (2013, August 27) Rim Fire. Accessed August 27, 2013.
  3. NASA Earth Observatory (2013, August 27) A Nighttime View of California’s Rim Fire.
  4. NASA Earth Observatory (2013, August 22) Rim Fire, California.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.

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