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This dry season, a bushfire in western Australia wiped out an area six times the size of Los Angeles.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published November 6, 2018
Data acquired October 22, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS