Camp Fire
by Nasa Earth Observatory/science Photo Library
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Camp Fire
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Nasa Earth Observatory/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Camp Fire, California, November 2018, combined visible and infrared satellite image. North is at top. This fire, the deadliest and most destructive in California history, broke out on 8 November 2018. The fire consumed tens of thousands of acres of land, and resulted in 85 fatalities. The active fire areas (imaged in shortwave-infrared light) are orange. The visible image data was obtained using Landsat bands 4-3-2. This image, some 50 kilometres across, is from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. It was obtained at around 10:45 local time (18:45 UTC) on 8 November 2018, around four hours after the fire had started.
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February 23rd, 2021
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