Through Smoke and Fire, NASA Searches for Answers (IMAGE)

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Through Smoke and Fire, NASA Searches for Answers

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Banner Image: On Dec. 5, 2017, the Multi Spectral Imager on the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite captured the data for a false-color image of the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, California. Active fires appear orange and the burn scars are brown. Unburned vegetation is green; developed areas are gray.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017) processed by the European Space Agency.

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