Smoke from Mato Grosso fires off Rio de Janeiro

  • Credit

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

Smoke from fires in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil (out of scene at upper left) is drifting southeastward and reaching out to the Atlantic Ocean over Rio de Janeiro (gray cluster of pixels southeast of image center.) This MODIS image was acquired June 7, 2002.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-06-15