Above and Beyond: Wildfires by Day and Night

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with the NASA Earth Observatory.

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA

except:

·       Daytime photo of lightning in Arizona courtesy of Wikipedia user ed ouimette

·       Photo of oil wells and flare in North Dakota courtesy of Tim Evanson

·       Photo of fracking equipment in North Dakota courtesy of Joshua Doubek

·       Photo of old and new San Francisco – Oakland Bay bridges courtesy of Frank Schulenburg

·       Sea creature illustration copyright The National Library of Israel, Shapell Family Digitization Project _and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Geography – Historic Cities Research Project

 

Music courtesy of Associated Production Music

Written by Tracy Vogel

Designed by Marc Lussier

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Text, As fires raged in the northwestern United States in August 2015, daytime satellite observations revealed smoke rising from the flames.

 

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Nighttime observations revealed the specific sites of the fires, which glowed almost as brightly as the surrounding city lights. A map of northern Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho shows lit areas around cities and where the fire burned.