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Flying through a Fire Cloud

A rare flight through a thunderstorm triggered by a wildfire has atmospheric scientists buzzing.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photographs by David Peterson (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published August 9, 2019
Data acquired August 7, 2019

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph