NASA Satellites Capture Images of Southern California Wildfires18/11/2008 |
| Images from NASA satellites give a wider perspective of the full extent and devastation of the wildfires raging in Southern California. A pair of images from NASA's Aqua satellite show the Los Angeles metropolitan area on 16th November 2008 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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The bottom image provides a closer view of the area around Los Angeles and two large fires burning there: the Freeway Complex Fire and the Sayre Fire. The Freeway Complex Fire has burned nearly 24,000 acres in Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside counties. Caption: This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the Los Angeles metropolitan area on November 16, 2008. Places where the sensor detected active fires are outlined in red. Read more about: satellite sensorSource: NASA Website: http://www.nasa.gov 
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