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Fires in Australia

Bushfires in Australia show no sign of abating. In this image from October 15, several extremely large fires burn across a broad swath of Australia’s interior.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Fires in Australia.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published October 18, 2011
Data acquired October 15, 2011

Source:: Aqua > MODIS