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littlemissmartypants

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Fri Aug 23, 2019, 11:21 PM Aug 2019

Amazon fires visualized...

Check out @NASAEarth’s Tweet:


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NASA's AIRS instrument maps carbon monoxide (CO) from fires burning in Brazil's Amazon region.

This time series ⬇️ shows CO high in the atmosphere over Brazil from Aug. 8-22, 2019. Each "day" in the series is made by averaging three day's-worth of data: https://t.co/binaSKsGcm https://t.co/tcg2W311Pm


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On August 20, @NASA/@NOAA's Suomi NPP mission captured this image of smoke and fire across several Brazilian states >> https://t.co/fTizv2DSRH @NASAEarth https://t.co/WOF5VsqXIF


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These two disturbing images illustrate the extent of the fires that are blazing through the Amazon right now.

One is from NASA's FIRMS, which pinpoints individual fires, and the other is from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, which shows biomass burning aerosol. https://t.co/jOah9dJf6E


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These are the active fires in the #Amazon basin, from the Global Wildfire Information System we are developing with @NASAEarth and @GEOSEC2025
In red the fires detected in the past 24h, in orange those from the past week
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Amazon fires visualized... (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Aug 2019 OP
Holy friggin CRAP ... you put all that orange together from the last pic on the right ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #1
 

mr_lebowski

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1. Holy friggin CRAP ... you put all that orange together from the last pic on the right ...
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 12:16 AM
Aug 2019

That's probably not too far from the equivalent of the ENTIRETY of the Continental USA being on fucking fire.

Sweet Jesus ...

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