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Needle-leaf forest stretches away from the Lena River in Russia’s remote eastern reaches. The EO-1 satellite captured these images just as fire swept through the area.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek with information from Petya Campell, Hyperion Science team, and Slava Kharuk, Sukachev Institute of Forests.

Published June 17, 2011
Data acquired May 24, 2011

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EO-1 > ALI