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NASA's high altitude ER-2 scans California's wildfires
For the second time this year, swaths of California are burning out of control thanks to unseasonably warm and dry temperatures. To better study what's happening and assess the environmental impact, NASA deployed its high-altitude ER-2 aircraft with a host of scientific instruments on board. In the image above, sunlight glints off its wing as it flies over the Thomas Fire in Ventura county at around 65,000 feet.
