Fires in Tasmania

  • Credit

    Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory

On April 26, 2006, the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Tasmania and captured this image, which showed numerous fires (marked in red) burning. Several of the fires are accompanied by long smoke plumes, which stretch generally westward.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • MODIS Bands

    1,4,3

  • Display Date

    April 28, 2006