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NASA Captures Incredibly High-Res Image of Arizona's Bighorn Fire From Space
NASA's impressive ASTER imaging instrument captured high-resolution photos of the extent of the fire damage that happened on June 29 in Bighorn, Arizona.
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NASA has some impressive equipment on the ground as well as in Space.
The space agency's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, captured incredibly detailed high-resolution thermal images of a wildfire that happened in Bighorn, Arizona, on June 29.
In the image, greenery is seen in red and the extent of the fire damage is in dark gray, displaying an area of 20 by 30 miles (33 by 48 kilometers).
The Arizona Bighorn fire burned across 118,370 acres of the Santa Catalina Mountains as of Wednesday morning. A number of communities in the area remain evacuated since the fire started on June 5, as per Arizona Central's report.
It's now possible to see the absolute extent of the fire's damage from a different perspective through NASA's ASTER's imaging technique.