Fires in California

Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, Posted on: Saturday, 12 July 2008, 10:30 CDT Download full size image

When NASA’s Terra satellite passed over Northern California’s Yolla Bolly Range Mountains, about 25 miles southwest of Chico, on July 6, 2008, the seven lightning-triggered fires that were part of the Yolla Bolly Complex Fire were mostly hidden by smoke. In places, however, patches of charcoal-colored burned ground were visible. This false-color image from Terra’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) uses the sensor’s observations of visible and infrared light to highlight the contrast between burned ground (charcoal), naturally bare ground (tan, such as the alpine regions of Mount Linn), and vegetation (red). According to the July 8, 2008, report from the National Interagency Fire Center, the Yolla Bolly Complex fire was 7,987 acres and 65 percent contained.

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