Fires and smoke across Siberia

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

The Siberian landscape is obscured by a veil of smoke from scores of fires burning across the region on August 4, 2003. This image of the fires (marked in red) was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-08-04