In 1988, wildfires raced through Yellowstone National Park, consuming hundreds of thousands of acres. This series of Landsat images tracks the landscape’s slow recovery through 2008.
NASA images by Robert Simmon, based on Landsat 5 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Holli Riebeek with image interpretation from Carl Key, United States Geological Survey.
Published July 1, 2009
Data acquired August 5, 1987 - September 15, 2008