Wildfires in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

On June 2, 2002, several fires were burning in southeastern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Within days, multiple large wildfires would be raging across Colorado, forcing numerous evacuations and destroying homes. This image was acquired by the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2002-06-18