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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Fires burning in eastern Russia and on Sakhalin Island are blanketing the area with smoke in late May.
Continued fire activity in eastern Russia is creating heavy smoke, particularly in the Amur River valley, at image left. This image was acquired on May 20, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.
Please note that the high-resolution scene provided here is 500 meters per pixel. For a copy of the scene at the sensor's fullest resolution, visit the MODIS Rapid Response Image Gallery.
Metadata
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Sensor
ADEOS/ADEOS -
Start Date
2002-05-20 -
Event Start Date
2002-05-18 -
NH Image ID
3683 -
NH Event ID
3637 -
NH Posting Date
2002-05-22