NASA Satellites Capture Images Of Southern California Wildfires

November 18, 2008

Images from NASA satellites give a wider perspective of the full extent and devastation of the wildfires raging in Southern California.

Gusty winds drove wildfires into southern California cities in mid-November 2008. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the Los Angeles metropolitan area on November 16, 2008. (Credit: NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team.)

A pair of images from NASA’s Aqua satellite show the Los Angeles metropolitan area on Nov. 16, 2008. The top image posted on NASA’s Web site shows the Southern California area as a vast plume of smoke billows out over the Pacific Ocean.

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