Fires in South Africa

  • Credit

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

This true-color image of South Africa shows an early season snow fall in the country of Lesotho (bottom left) on May 8, 2002, in the Drakensberg Mountains. Fires (red dots) were burning in northwest South Africa and southern Mozambique (upper right).

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-05-13