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NASA Earth Observatory Collection
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NASA Earth Observatory Collection
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Fires Across the United States
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Fires Across the United States
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This expansive image of the United States was captured by the Mod erate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers A> (MODIS) on NASA?s Terra and Aqua satellites. The left hand portion of the image comes from Aqua MODIS observations captured on the afternoon of October 22, 2003, while the right hand part of the image is from Terra MODIS observations captured a few hours earlier. Several geographic regions are experiencing fires, which were detected by the sensors and are marked with red dots. At upper left, fires are still burning across the Northern Rockies; the highest concentration is in Idaho, with additional fires in Montana to its east, and southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon, to the west. In the Southwest, fires are burning in southern California near Los Angeles (gray patch right at edge of image to the north of the Baja Peninsula), as well as in the arc of mountains running through Arizona. At top center, fires are scattered across the northern Great Plains, from North Dakota and across the United States? border into Canada. Far to the south, dozens more fires are burning in the Mississippi River Valley in Mississippi (against right edge), Louisiana (to the west) and Arkansas (north of Louisiana). The high-resolution image provided above is 2 kilometers per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MOD IS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Description
This expansive image of the United States was captured by the Mod erate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers A> (MODIS) on NASA?s Terra and Aqua satellites. The left hand portion of the image comes from Aqua MODIS observations captured on the afternoon of October 22, 2003, while the right hand part of the image is from Terra MODIS observations captured a few hours earlier. Several geographic regions are experiencing fires, which were detected by the sensors and are marked with red dots. At upper left, fires are still burning across the Northern Rockies; the highest concentration is in Idaho, with additional fires in Montana to its east, and southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon, to the west. In the Southwest, fires are burning in southern California near Los Angeles (gray patch right at edge of image to the north of the Baja Peninsula), as well as in the arc of mountains running through Arizona. At top center, fires are scattered across the northern Great Plains, from North Dakota and across the United States? border into Canada. Far to the south, dozens more fires are burning in the Mississippi River Valley in Mississippi (against right edge), Louisiana (to the west) and Arkansas (north of Louisiana). The high-resolution image provided above is 2 kilometers per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MOD IS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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Aqua- MODIS
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Aqua- MODIS
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Terra
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Terra
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Aqua
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Aqua
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California
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California
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Louisiana
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Louisiana
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Canada
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Canada
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Oregon
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Oregon
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles
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Washington
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Washington
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Arkansas
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Arkansas
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North Dakota
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North Dakota
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Idaho
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Idaho
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Arizona
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Arizona
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Montana
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Montana
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Mississippi
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Mississippi
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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United States of America
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United States of America
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October 22, 2003
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October 22, 2003
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2003
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SPD-ETOBS-11795
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