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Data acquired November 19, 2005 400 x 300 28 KB - JPEG
Data acquired November 19, 2005 800 x 600 101 KB - JPEG
Data acquired November 19, 2005 1600 x 1200 272 KB - JPEG
Thick plumes of smoke billowed from fires burning in the coastal mountains of northern Mexico on November 19, 2005. The fires, marked with red squares, were fueled by strong Santa Ana winds, which also blew the smoke west over the Pacific Ocean. The grid of green in the upper right corner of the image is irrigated cropland in the Imperial Valley. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image on November 19, 2005.
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published November 21, 2005 Data acquired November 19, 2005