A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet

• Credit:

  Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA/GSFC

This MODIS true-color image shows fire burning west of Lake Tahoe in California. Additional fires are burning to the south in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Images & Animations

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• Database Updated: June 20, 2013