view from Space, (Colorado and Russia) Fire Forest...
Both of these images are from June 18, 2012, the day on which a state of emergency was declared in Russia because of these fires. These fires are near the borders of Khanty-Mansiisk, Krasnoyarsk, and Tomsk. NASA said:
Numerous fires are burning through taiga in Krasnoyarsk (bottom), and a large pall of smoke to the south covers much of Tomsk According to Russian authorities, many of the fires started when people lost control of agricultural fires and campfires. However, lightning sparked some of the blazes as well. According to the environmental group Greenpeace, more land in Russia has burned this year than in 2010, a year that intense wildfires affected western Russia and produced rare pyrocumulus “fire clouds.”
Sources for this story: NASA and InciWeb. For more about the Waldo Canyon image, click here. For more about the second image (whole state of Colorado),
Here are four satellite images of wildfires in Colorado and central Russia, as viewed by NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites.
http://earthsky.org/earth/view-from-space-wildfires-in-colorado-and-central-russia
Central of Colorado (Waldo Canyon Fire)
Whole View State of Colorado
Central of Russia
Size State of Colorado in Russia
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