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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Scores of fires (red dots) along the Lena River (center) in eastern Russia are cloaking the skies over the Central Siberian Plateau with a thick shroud of smoke. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image was acquired on August 19, 2002.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Visualization Date
2002-08-19