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Historic Heat in Alaska

Record-breaking heat has exacerbated clusters of wildfires burning throughout the state.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Photograph by Amanda Young (Toolik Field Station). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published July 9, 2019
Data acquired July 8, 2019

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Aqua > MODIS
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