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Mine Fire Smoke Chokes Australian Town

An arson-lit wildfire spread to an open-pit coal mine in southeastern Australia on February 9 and has been pumping dense smoke over the town of Morwell ever since.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Mine Fire Smoke Chokes Australian Town.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published February 28, 2014
Data acquired February 23, 2014

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI