Fires and smoke across Mato Grosso, Brazil

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Hundreds—possibly thousands—of active fire detections were made by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on August 31, 2003, across western Brazil (top right) and Bolivia (bottom left). These fires, marked with red dots, are billowing smoke which hangs over the terrain, nearly obscuring it in some places.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-09-03