Earth  ID: 12742

NASA Satellites See Wildfires from Space

Released on October 11, 2017
As wildfires burn across California, NASA satellites help gather data about where the fires are and how smoke travels across the state.

The smoke from the fires is even visible a million miles away from Earth, captured by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).

The Terra spacecraft can see fires in both daylight and at night, helping aid firefighters in tracking and stopping the blazes.

NASA's unique vantage point in space helps better understand our home planet.

Terra Imagery from NASA Worldview
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The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured this image on Oct. 9, 2017.
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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) onboard NASA's Terra spacecraft captured these images from Oct. 8-10, 2017.
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These images were captured with NASA's Terra spacecraft's thermal bands from Oct. 9-11, 2017.
 

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Kathryn Mersmann (USRA): Lead Producer
Jefferson Beck (USRA): Producer
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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Satellite
SVS >> Terra
NASA Science >> Earth
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Natural Hazards >> Wildfires
SVS >> DSCOVR
SVS >> EPIC

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0