South American Smoke

  • Credit

    Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Quite a number of smoke plumes are feeding the smokey haze that stretches across the middle of this SeaWiFS image. Also of not: a huge area in Paraguay that looks like human-caused deforestation; a sharp difference in vegetation across the Argentina/Brazil border; a large amount of suspended sediment in the Rio de la Plata; the big grey splotch at the edge of the Rio de la Plata is Buenos Aires.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    1999-08-11