Fires in Portugal
Fires in Portugal
16August 2005
In the countryside around Portugals second largest city, Porto, and in the Estrela Mountains to the southeast, numerous fires continued to burn on August 14, 2005, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite captured this image. The locations of active fires that MODIS detected are outlined in red. Vegetation is bright green, and burned areas are deep red.
AQUA
14 August 2005
NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
According to news reports, an increase in temperatures is making a deadly situation worse. Several firefighters have been killed over the past several weeks, and temperatures were predicted to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on August 15.
(Source: Earth Observatory)
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