True-color image of the August Fire Complex in California (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

True-color image of the August Fire Complex in California

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NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured another startling image of the August Complex of fires that has grown to over 1,000,000 acres burned (1,006,140 acres total) and because of that grim milestone the complex has been dubbed a "gigafire." The August Complex is only 58% contained.

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NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).

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