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Huge Bushfire in the Kalahari

Beginning in late August 2008, fire broke out near the western border of Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve. By late September, some 40,000 square kilometers (about 15,500 square miles) had burned, scorching roughly 80 percent of the park, according to news reports.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Huge Bushfire in the Kalahari.

NASA images and animation by Jesse Allen and Rebecca Lindsey based on data courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey.

Published September 26, 2008
Data acquired August 27 - September 23, 2008

Sources:: Aqua > MODIS; Terra > MODIS