Fires and smoke in Northwest India

  • Credit

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

Agricultural burning is occurring in Northwest India (usually at right) and Pakistan (at left )near the Indus River in October 2002. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite detected numerous fires (red dots) burning just east of India’s border with Pakistan (upper left quadrant). The haze in the area is probably not solely due to the fires, however; some of it is likely urban air pollution from several large cities in the region. In the upper right quadrant, the foothills of the Himalayas are deep green, and the peaks are dusted with snow and capped by clouds.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-10-23