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Data acquired April 6, 2006 540 x 405 JPEG
Data acquired April 6, 2006 3000 x 3000 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired April 6, 2006 3000 x 3000 19 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired April 6, 2006 31 KB - KML/KMZ
At the end of March 2006, a grassfire broke out in western Iceland, perhaps as a result of a smoldering cigarette butt. Although this area near the coast to the northwest of the country’s capital, Reykjavik, is typically very wet, a period of persistent north winds dried out the grass and made it flammable.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Published April 7, 2006 Data acquired April 6, 2006