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A Nighttime View of California’s Rim Fire

Burning in the northeast corner of Yosemite National Park, the Rim Fire ranks among the largest in California history.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Nighttime View of California’s Rim Fire.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS day-night band data. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 28, 2013
Data acquired August 23 - 26, 2013