Fires and smoke south of Krasnoyarsk and near Irkutsk, Russia

This image of south-central Russia on May 29, 2002, was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite. At right, heavy smoke hangs over Lake Baikal and the Angara River, which drains from the southwest of the lake and flows north. At the lower left, numerous fires (red dots) are burning in the mountains near the Mongolia-Russia border.

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

Published June 1, 2002
Data acquired May 29 - 29, 2002

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Topic:

Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Fires