Deadly Fires Engulfing Madeira seen by NASA’s MISR

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The Multi-angle Imaging Spectrodiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired an image of a large wildfire on the Island of Madeira, part of the autonomous region of Portugal.  Madeira’s capital city, Funchal, also caught fire, burning homes and leading to the evacuation of a thousand people. Read more on JPL’s Photojournal.