Fires in central Russia

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

In the Altay region of south-central Russia, scores of fires (red dots) were burning on May 14, 2004, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image. In the west (left), the fires are producing abundant smoke, which stretches north and east across the top of the scene.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2004-05-14