NASA’s ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets

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NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19 recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns in minutes to seconds, as indicated in the legend above.

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Roads and sidewalks in some areas get so hot that skin contact could result in second-degree burns.

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California...