Fires over the Western US during 2002 with Zoom

  • Released Thursday, September 5, 2002
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This animation shows the camera pulling out from the Southwestern US while fire activity during the summer of 2002 is displayed. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 5 days per second. The particles fade over 3.4 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray.

This animation shows a zoom out from the Southwestern US while fires detected between 5-1-2002 and 8-20-2002 are displayed.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Fire location data courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project (NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland). The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

This page was originally published on Thursday, September 5, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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