A view from NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft shows smoke plumes, from roughly 65,000 feet, produced by the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, California, on Dec. 7, 2017. A team of NASA scientists is used a sophisticated imaging spectrometer onboard the aircraft called AVIRIS (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) to study environmental impacts caused by the devastating Southern California wildfires.
December 7, 2017
NASA Photo / Stu Broce