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Death Valley Claims A Heat Title Again

With the thermometer rising past 129 degrees Fahrenheit, Death Valley National Park may have set the record for the all-time hottest June day ever recorded in the United States.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Death Valley Claims A Heat Title Again.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published July 4, 2013
Data acquired June 30, 2013

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI