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The Black Fire Blows Up in New Mexico

The intensity and speed of the Black fire grew quickly, producing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud and crossing the Continental Divide, to become the second-largest fire in the state.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published May 23, 2022
Data acquired May 21, 2022

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI