Fires in Central Asia

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

On April 3, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite detected numerous fires (red dots) burning along the Sydar´ya River in Kazakhstan (upper right) and the Amudar´ya River in northwestern Uzbekistan (left). At bottom left is Turkmenistan. At upper left is the Aral Sea.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2003-04-03