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An Unusually Smoky Fire Season in Sakha

Wildfires are approaching records for estimated carbon emissions.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and data from Kirillina, K., et al. (2020). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published August 9, 2021
Data acquired August 8, 2021

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
NOAA-19 POES > AVHRR
Terra > MODIS