Fires North of Russia's Lake Baikal

  • Credit

    NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.</p>

The onset of summer brought torrential monsoon rains and floods to Cambodia in July 2006.

North of Lake Baikal in south-central Russia, scores of fires were burning in the area's forests in mid-July 2006.

North of Lake Baikal in south-central Russia, scores of fires were burning in the region’s forests on July 10, 2006. This image of the Irkutsk region was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. A bank of clouds hugs the left margin of the image, and gray smoke hangs over much of the scene.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2006-07-10

  • Event Start Date

    2006-07-10

  • NH Image ID

    13700

  • NH Event ID

    11047

  • NH Posting Date

    2006-07-11