Agricultural Fires in Northern India

A cluster of agricultural fires shrouds the foothills of the Himalayas with smoke in this image of northern India from November 6, 2003.

Smoke from agricultural fires in northern India continues to back up against the Himalaya Mountains on November 6, 2003. This image shows a river of haze stretching all the way from the Indus River valley (top left) eastward to where the Ganges River empties into the Bay of Bengal (right center edge). At top, the skies over the Tibetan Plateau are clear. This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2003-11-06

  • Event Start Date

    2003-10-12

  • NH Image ID

    11829

  • NH Event ID

    10182

  • NH Posting Date

    2003-11-07