This false-color image taken by the Landsat-7 satellite on June 7, shows how completely the Wallow Fire is burning the forest in the mountains of eastern Arizona.
Needle-leaf forest stretches away from the Lena River in Russia’s remote eastern reaches. The EO-1 satellite captured these images just as fire swept through the area.
Though the Wallow Fire in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona is not yet fully out, the time to assess and recover has already begun via satellite imagery.
One of a number of large wildfires that have affected northern California in 2012, the Chips fire burned more than 75,000 acres by the time firefighters had contained it.