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Image: Lockheed Fire, Santa Cruz Mountains

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Description: Red outlines mark the locations where the satellite detected active fire. A narrow but dense plume of smoke slices across the mouth of Monterey Bay, stretching past the city of Santa Cruz toward Monterey. The landscape of this part of California is one of redwoods and fir trees, and it appears lushly green in this image. But mixed with these forests are tracts of chaparral (landscapes dominated by fire-adapted, drought-tolerant shrubs and grasses) and large stands of highly flammable knobcone pine.
Title: Lockheed Fire, Santa Cruz Mountains
Credit: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39817
Author: Jeff Schmaltz
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