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Historic Fire in New Mexico

Image: NASA
Image: NASA (Fair Use)

2022’s fire season got off to an early start in New Mexico. The Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak fire, which burned for two months after it was accidentally set by a controlled Forest Service burn, became the largest wildfire in that state’s history. This MODIS image from May shows a pyrocumulonimbus cloud from the fire as seen from above, drifting north over the state border into Colorado.

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