Fire!

Been paying attention to the wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico?


The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this image of the fires on June 16, 2011 at 18:00 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT). Active fire areas appear as red dots, and smoke is blowing to the northeast.

NASA

Here is some time-lapse imagery from NASA’s Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on the Terra spacecraft of the the Wallow and Horseshoe 2 Fires burning in Arizona mid-morning (local time) on June 7, 2011.

511,118 acres burned so far witth no end in sight.