Fires and smoke near Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk, Russia

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Considerably smokier than two days before, this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite shows numerous fires burning in south central Russia's Krasnoyarsk region on May 24, 2002.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-05-28