Bushfire Pictures

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Here are some bushfire pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”.

Australian Bushfires

Here’s a photo of the bushfire that happened in Australia on January 18, 2003. This photo was taken from the International Space Station by the crew member of the Expedition 6 mission.

Victorian Bushfires Rage into the New Year

Here’s another photo of a bushfire in Victoria’s Great Dividing Range Mountains which happened on January 11, 2007. This picture was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument flying onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Bushfires in Southeast Australia

Bushfires have been very frequent in Australia. This is another photo of a bushfire taken on February 9, 2009 which happened in the southeastern part of Australia. This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil

This is a view of the fires caused by the forest clearing on the Amazon Frontier in Rondonia, Brazil. This photo was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite on September 30, 2007.

Forest Fire, Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, LA

This is a view of the forest fire at the Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge in Los Angeles, California. This photo was taken by the crew member of the Expedition 12 while onboard the International Space Station on January 2, 2006.

We have written many articles about bushfires for Universe Today. Here’s a set of pictures of the California wildfires, and here are some satellite images of the 2009 Australian bushfires.

If you’d like more bushfire pictures from space, check out Visible Earth Homepage. And here’s a link to NASA’s Earth Observatory.

We’ve also recorded an episode of Astronomy Cast all about planet Earth. Listen here, Episode 51: Earth.

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