November 23 , 2002 : Fire scratch cut through the green scrub to the orange dunes below in this view of the Simpson Desert , Australia .
The backdrop texture are linear sand dunes angling diagonally across the scene . The green mat of scrub vegetation have tied the dune into position , bind them down from migrate across the desert .
A fervidness sometime earlier in the yr combust sharp mark across the landscape painting , bring out the vivid orange of bare sand . consort scientist accustom to translate space station picture taking :
Fires first pass on into the view from the lower left — parallel with the major dune course and dominant wind direction . Then the wind shifted direction by about 90 degrees so that fires advanced across the sand dune in a serial of frond - same tendrils . Each frond starts at some point on the earlier fervor cicatrice , and sharp wind of the fronds show where the flame burned out of course at the ending of the episode .
The sharp boundary along the burn mark mark are because of a unbendable Inner Light southwesterly wind . The weak wind prevented spark from setting off additional fervor .
The fire scars were photograph by a member of the Expedition 5 crowd to the International Space Station approximately 312 kilometers ( 200 Swedish mile ) above the Australian outback and 300 km ( 186 miles ) east of Alice Springs .
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