Fires in the U.S. Southwest
Wildfiresand Smoke in Arizona
28 June 2006
Warm Fire in Northern Arizona
The Warm Fire in northern Arizona was churning out a huge cloud of smoke on26 June 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite passed overhead and collected this image just before 1:00 p.m local time. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fire are marked in red. Smoke spreads southward over the Grand Canyon. According to the27 June report from the National Interagency Fire Center, the Warm Fire had grown to more than23,500 ha, and it had forced officials to close down the main highway that runs southward to the Grand Canyon.
TERRA
26 June 2006
(source: EarthObservatory)
The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 250 meters perpixel.
For more information see:
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National Interagency Fire Center
