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June 20, 2003- (date of web publication)

ASPEN FIRE, ARIZONA

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Twenty miles north of Tucson, Arizona, the Aspen Fire rages through the Coronado National Forest. According to reports, thousands of acres have burned, including an unknown number of homes and businesses in a resort community on Mount Lemmon. Officials evacuated hundreds of people from the area as firefighters struggle in difficult terrain under hot, dry, windy conditions. In this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite, June 19, 2003, several fires burn across the Southwest. The Aspen Fire, south of center, has the largest smoke plume of the fires. The purple in the third image (below) represents Tuscon, AZ

Images courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

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