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A Desert Landscape Scarred by Fire

Burn scars have gotten larger near Australia’s Lake Mackay.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo courtesy of Neil Burrows. Note: Though taken in the Gibson Desert, the photo does not show the fire that caused the burn scar highlighted in the Landsat image. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to Adam Liefloff for being the first to weigh in with an answer for the September Puzzler on Earth Matters. Congratulations also to Cait Stuart, Tyler Keaton, and Rosemary Butt for being some of the first readers to solve the puzzler on Facebook.

Published September 25, 2016
Data acquired October 18 - November 19, 2015

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
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