Fires and Saharan dust in Western Africa

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

On November 5, 2002, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured this true-color image of West Africa and numerous fires (red dots) burning the throughout the Sahel and savannas of Senegal (center left), Mali (center right), and Guinea (bottom).

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2002-11-07