Fires on Cape York Peninsula and New Guinea

  • Credit

    NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team.

Southeasterly winds were aligning the smoke plumes from scores of fires burning on New Guinea on October 13, 2004, when this Aqua MODIS image was acquired.

Southeasterly winds were aligning the smoke plumes from scores of fires burning on New Guinea on October 13, 2004, when this image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Most of the fires (marked in red) appear concentrated between the southern coast and the Fly River (delta at lower right).

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2004-10-13

  • Event Start Date

    2004-10-03

  • NH Image ID

    12531

  • NH Event ID

    10500

  • NH Posting Date

    2004-10-15