Smoke Over Southern Andes Mountains

  • Credit

    SeaWiFS image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

There appeared to be some large fires burning in the Southern Andes Mountains on Feb. 6, 2002.

There appeared to be some large fires burning in the Southern Andes Mountains on Feb. 6, 2002, filling the skies over the region with considerable smoke and haze. The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), flying aboard the OrbView-2 satellite, acquired this true-color scene on Feb. 6.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Start Date

    2002-02-06

  • Event Start Date

    2002-02-06

  • NH Image ID

    1618

  • NH Event ID

    1611

  • NH Posting Date

    2002-02-07