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When a bushfire tore through an Australian astronomical observatory in January 2013, fire-prevention lessons from a decade earlier paid off. An image from the Terra satellite shows the small but crucial patch of forest that survived the blaze.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published February 7, 2013
Data acquired February 4, 2013

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Terra > ASTER