File:FireScars SimpsonDesert ISS005-E-21295.jpg
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| Description | Astronaut photo of fire scars in the w:Simpson Desert, Australia. The image suggests a time sequence of events. Fires first advanced into the view from the left—parallel with the major dune trend and dominant wind direction. Then the wind shifted direction by about 90 degrees so that fires advanced across the dunes in a series of frond-like tendrils. Each frond starts at some point on the earlier fire scar, and sharp tips of the fronds show where the fires burned out naturally at the end of the episode. The sharp edges of the fire scars are due to steady but probably weak southwesterly winds—weaker winds reduced sparking of additional fires in adjacent scrub on either side of the main fire pathways. |
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| Source | http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16938 |
| Author | ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group at the Johnson Space Center. |
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Photo source: ISS005-E-21295.
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| current | 16:38, 9 May 2006 | | 640 × 1,000 (602 KB) | Holly Cheng (talk | contribs) | ==Summary== {{Information | Description=Astronaut photo of fire scars in the w:Simpson Desert, Australia. | Source=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16938 | Date=November 23, 2002 | Author=ISS Crew Earth Observatio |
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