File:Large Fires in Northern Mexico (IR).jpg

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English: Image showing dense plumes of smoke blowing northeast on from Mexico’s Coahuila state. The image includes both infrared and visible light and provides a view through the smoke to the freshly burned terrain. The burned land is brick red. Hot areas glow orange in infrared light, revealing the active fire front on the south and west sides of the burned area. (The orange horizontal stripes are satellite sensor artifacts.)
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Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author Jesse Allen
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Camera location28° 55′ 30″ N, 102° 04′ 48″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Image taken by the Landsat-5 satellite. Landsat 5 data provided by the United States Geological Survey.

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