NASA's Terra satellite collected this natural-color image with the MODIS instrument on August 23, 2015.
NASA’s Terra satellite collected this natural-color image with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument on August 23, 2015. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red. For more information about the western wildfires check out the image feature from August 24, 2015 or visit Inciweb, the Incident Information System. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC. Caption by Lynn Jenner