Fires and Smoke in Eastern Asia

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Scores of fires were smoking across southern Russia (top) on April 30, 2003. A few other fires were detected in northern China as well (below). This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-04-30