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Doce Fire Burn Scar and Retardant Trail

It is unusual to see flame retardant residue in satellite imagery, but the Earth-Observing 1 satellite detected a ribbon of residue around a fire in Arizona on June 23, 2013.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Lower photograph courtesy of the Southwest Area Type 1 Incident Management Team. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Mike Struble.

Published June 30, 2013
Data acquired June 23, 2013

Source:
EO-1 > ALI