Wildfires Seen From Station

A video camera aboard the International Space Station captured this footage of the wildfires burning in the Western U.S., including Colorado.

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[mullyjf]

My nephew is there fighting the fires as a member of a hotshot team....stay safe Shaun!

[dexterproject]

did you really expect to see the actual fire from space?

[Underground power]

They're not when they make statements like that. From, the rest of the World

[TrachyCarpus Takil]

It's hard for me to tell but it looks like the first two fires you see based upon the Great Salt Lake and the smaller Utah Lake to the south, a large plume one and a small plume one near the solar panel array Is probably the "Wood Hollow" fire in San Pete Utah and the other large one that moves across the top further to the east I think is the "Church Camp" fire in Eastern Utah.

Someone that knows Colorado Please give a tour of your active fires.

[Paul Wright]

Wow, what an idiot

[chris m]

well its known some of the fires were started by someone but most of them were started by lightning as far as i am aware. do you realize how hard it would have to be raining and for how long it'd have to rain to stop a fire from starting by lightning strike with the drought that has been happening? obviously not......another note....the grey areas is the smoke from the fires. you can see the clouds separate from the smoke and it really puts it in perspective....

[midstarify]

Fire is in the grey zones ?

[supermonkee48]

If I understand correctly, this was recorded in HD using a Nikon D3s, and the video file was downlinked to the ground. I'm curious why the maximum resolution provided here is 360p.

[quinxxer]

your ugly mother is a fucking moron you dick.

did i make any remark to this fucking wild fire ? and how do you know lightning strikes started it ? its usually raining when that happens you douche bag. people could have started it also. and like it or not, we are a destructive life form, we consume all the natural resources and move on to keep feeding. the bad thing s we have done to each other out way the positives. so fuck you. i love humanity and life and all. but we are not good.

. moron.

[RASHED ALEMADI]

By lightning and global warming