Fires and smoke in Mexico

  • Credit

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

On April 28, 2002, scores of wildfires were still burning in Southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, blanketing the region with smoke. Fire detection and imagery were acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2002-05-06