on 26-08-2018 01:56 PM
At all times, somewhere across the globe, there will be fire. These fires might be agricultural fires, they might be controlled burns, but they also might be wildfires, spreading out of control.
New images, taken using NASA'sWorldview application, show a world on fire.
In this photo, the red dots designate points on the planet where NASA's thermal bands have detected actively burning fires. In Africa, says NASA, where the majority of the world fires appear to be burning, a vast number of these are most likely strategically set agricultural fires, designed to manage land and return nutrients to the soil.
However, a large number represent out of control wildfires. Particularly in North America and Chile
The fires in Australia are bushfires, which tend to be common during dry seasons, but Australia is currently in the middle of winter (and a drought). "As the climate continues to change," said NASA in a post, "and areas become hotter and drier, more and more extreme bushfires will break out across the entire Australian continent."
Worldview works by stitching up to 700 full-resolution satellite imagery layers, and combines them with current data. It can update within three hours of observation.
That's a very scarey image.
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on 28-08-2018 08:10 PM
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on 27-08-2018 12:50 AM
The Ramsey Canyon Fire just north of Medford has been designated the number one priority fire in the nation.
https://ktvl.com/news/local/ramsey-canyon-fire-declared-top-priority-fire-in-the-nation.
on 27-08-2018 11:40 AM
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on 28-08-2018 07:49 PM
Somebody has been doing some colouring-in. If you look at the original NASA image it is nowhere near as bad as this.
on 28-08-2018 08:10 PM