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Arc of Fires in the U.S. West

The Caldor fire, nearing the south end of Lake Tahoe, is one of many potent fires still burning at the end of August 2021.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview,VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 31, 2021
Data acquired August 30, 2021

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI
Suomi NPP > VIIRS