Kamchatka Peninsula, Eastern Russia

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

This true-color MODIS image shows a fire burning on the Kamchatka Peninsula, which extends southward from far eastern Siberia into the Bering and Okhotsk Seas. The mountains running along the backbone of the peninsula are the Sredinnyy Mountains.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2001-06-12