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Wildfires in Colorado

NASA Earth Observatory

Jun 13, 2013
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2013-06-11 00:00:00
June 11, 2013

On June 11, 2013, the

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

(MODIS) on NASA’s

Aqua

satellite captured this image of the

Royal Gorge,

Big Meadows,

and

Black Forest

fires burning in Colorado. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires.

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

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