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Fires in Southern Kruger National Park

The fires and resulting burn scars shown in these true-color images help maintain healthy savanna ecosystems in South Africa's Kruger National Park.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek with information from Navashni Govender, program manager for fire ecology and biogeochemistry in Kruger National Park.

Published September 25, 2010
Data acquired July 31 - September 18, 2010

Source:
EO-1 > ALI