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Wildfires in New Mexico

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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

Tres Lagunas fire

and

Thompson Ridge fire

burning in New Mexico near Santa Fe. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. The light spots within the smoke plumes appear to be

pyrocumulus clouds.

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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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