Fires and smoke in Yucatan Peninsula

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Scores of fires (red dots) in southern Mexico and Central America dominate this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite on March 17, 2003. Countries shown are (north to south) Mexico, Guatemala (west) and Belize (east), El Salvador (west) and Honduras (east), and Nicaragua.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2003-03-18