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More Fire Satellite Images

From NASA, of course. This first one is from the QuikScat satellite, 7AM 10/22. Wind speed via reflected radar on the water surface. Click for source page.

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Vector field

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The next one is visual, from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Aqua satellite. 250m/pixel, 10/2. Again, click for source.

Visual, click for original

Found via Science in the News, wonderful stuff. Quite the plume, eh? I also like how the vector field shows the offshore winds that fanned the flames. Very cool.

Additional coolness: KMZ file of the MODIS for Google Earth!