During the summer of 1988, much of the forest covering Yellowstone National Park burned to the ground in a series of forest fires. This Thematic Mapper image was taken on September 8, 1988, while huge fires still raged. In this false-color image (Bands 7, 4, and 2 represented in red, green, and blue, respectively), unburned vegetation appears in shades of green; burned vegetation in red; bare rock and soils in shades of brown and orange; and water in black. Bluish-white columns of smoke from active fires slope from the lower left to the upper right across the center of the image to mix with ordinary clouds in the upper third of the image. Yellowstone Lake can be seen through the smoke just below the image center. Acknowledgment: These data are distributed by the EROS Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (EDC DAAC), located at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, SD. Landsat 5 image number L5038029008825210.

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