Fires in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Credit

    Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory

Hundreds of fires were burning in Angola (left) and Democratic Republic of Congo (upper right) on May 30, 2006, when MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image. MODIS also detected fires (locations marked in red) in Zambia (bottom right).

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • MODIS Bands

    1,4,3

  • Display Date

    June 4, 2006