I'm actually out in the Colorado Springs area visiting family for a week, and it certainly hasn't been the visit that we planned.
As you are probably aware, wild fires have sprung up across the state and some of them have resulted in the loss of life and homes.
While searching around I stumbled across the above image from NASA taken with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on June 23, 2012.
You can clearly see the smoke from the wild fires (note that the white puffy things are clouds, the smoke is gray and more diffuse). This was early in the evolution of the fires outside Colorado Springs in Waldo Canyon, so the smoke from there is still relatively faint in this natural color image.
It may take several more weeks to extinguish the fires, but they are certainly making progress.
More Pictures of Earth from Space
Since I will only be able to sporadically update the blog during the next few weeks, I thought I would leave you all with some summer reading until I can get back to regular updates. Enjoy the articles below!
- Is There Sound in Space?
- Is it Possible to Balance an Egg on the Equinox?
- What is the Cosmological Constant?
- What is Hubble's Law?
- Are There Aliens in our Galaxy?
- What is the Speed of Light?
- Are Sex and Pregnancy in Space Possible?
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