On Sept. 19, 2014, the Landsat 8 satellite captured this false color image of the King fire in Eldorado National Forest. Burned forest appears red; unaffected forests are green; cleared forest is beige; and smoke is blue.
On Sept. 19, 2014, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured these images of the King fire in Eldorado National Forest. In the false-color image, burned forest appears red; unaffected forests are green; cleared forest is beige; and smoke is blue. As of Sept. 23, the blaze had charred 36,320 hectares (89,571 acres).
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Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
Caption: Adam Voiland