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The Scars of Mendocino

Scarring of the landscape is evident in the wake of the largest wildfire in California history.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). ER-2 image courtesy of NASA/URSA. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 30, 2018
Data acquired August 27, 2018

Sources:
Aircraft Sensors
Landsat 8 > OLI
Space Shuttle > SRTM