Satellite image captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite showing the drought-fueled Rim fire burning in central California near Yosemite National Park August 25, 2013. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Winds blew a thick smoke plume toward the northeast. A smaller fire, the American fire, burned to the north. The lower image is a photograph that shows the fire burning at night on August 21.

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Satellite image captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite showing the drought-fueled Rim fire burning in central California near Yosemite National Park August 25, 2013. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Winds blew a thick smoke plume toward the northeast. A smaller fire, the American fire, burned to the north. The lower image is a photograph that shows the fire burning at night on August 21.

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Size: 3732px × 4750px
Location: Central California near Yosemite National park, USA
Photo credit: © NASA Photo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: aerial, america, burning, california, day, flames, horizontal, modis, nasa, outdoors, smoke, usa, wildfire, wildfires