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This is a satellite view of wildfires across a portion of the Amazon Rainforest. The image shows popcorn clouds and wispy streaks of fire smoke over the forest and winding Amazon River. Overlayed across the image are hundreds of small red dots to mark the location of fires identified by satellite sensors.

Improving Fire Detection in the Amazon

NASA researchers are tweaking algorithms and combining data from multiple satellites to track tropical forest fires in Brazil.
Feature Article
Feb. 1, 2024
An artist's conception of the TROPICS SmallSat constellation in space over a tropical cyclone

Provisional TROPICS Data Now Available

Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) Pathfinder data released.
Feature Article
Jan. 23, 2024
True-color reflectance image of the Carrizozo Volcanic Field in New Mexico on 13 January 2024 from the MSI instrument aboard the Sentinel-2A satellite

Carrizozo Volcanic Field, New Mexico

Image captured on Jan 13, 2024, by the MSI instrument aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2A satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Jan. 18, 2024
square image with grid of 8 squares showing new options for exploring FIRMS

Updated User Interface in FIRMS

NASA’s Fire information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) released an expanded User Interface (UI) for both FIRMS Global and FIRMS US/Canada.
Blog
Jan. 5, 2024
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