{"id":12548,"date":"2014-01-16T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=12548"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:07:12","slug":"nasa-satellite-captures-image-of-australian-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/nasa-satellite-captures-image-of-australian-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA satellite captures image of Australian wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Satellite imagery of wildfires is something we are certainly used to seeing here in Colorado, particularly the last couple of years.\u00a0 Summertime in Australia brings wildfire danger as well and a NASA satellite captured smoke billowing from a blaze down under.<\/p>\n

Much of Australia has been gripped by record-setting heat in recent weeks thus leading to the increased fire danger.\u00a0 The image from NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite shows one of the blazes burning.<\/p>\n

From NASA:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn January 2014, an intense heat wave and strong winds fueled an outbreak of hundreds of bushfires in South Australia. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite acquired this image of grass and shrub fires raging in Yumbarra Conservation Park on January 16, 2014. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire. Northerly winds blew large plumes of smoke out over the Great Australian Bight. Members of the aboriginal community of Koonibba were preparing to evacuate as a large fire headed in the direction of the town, according to the Australian Broadcasting Company.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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NASA satellite image of wildfires and their smoke in Australia. (NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Satellite imagery of wildfires is something we are certainly used to seeing here in Colorado, particularly the last couple of years.\u00a0 Summertime in Australia brings wildfire danger as well and a NASA satellite captured smoke billowing from a blaze down under. Much of Australia has been gripped by record-setting heat in recent weeks thus leading … Continue reading NASA satellite captures image of Australian wildfires<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,330],"tags":[369,142,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12550,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions\/12550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}