Fires in Southeast Russia

  • Credit

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

On May 7, 2002, MODIS detected numerous fires burning in southeastern Russia, along the border with China. In the upper left quadrant of the image, what appear to be burn scars (brown) from previous fires cover a large area.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-05-13