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Fire and Ice in Greenland

Scientists are using satellites to track a sizable wildfire burning along Greenland’s western coast.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland, with information from Ruth Mottram (Danish Meteorological Institute), Jessica McCarty (Miami University), Mark Parrington (COPERNICUS), and Stef Lhermitte (Delft University of Technology).

Published August 12, 2017
Data acquired August 3, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI