Fires in South America
Fires in South America
19August 2005
From the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil, to the Pantanal Wetlands, to the Gran Chanco plains of Paraguay and Argentina, hundreds of fires were burning across South America on 18 August 2005. This image of the heart of the continent was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite shows fires marked in red and a cloud of smoke hanging over a large swath of the heart of the continent.
TERRA
18 August 2005
14:55 hrs UTC
(Image courtesy MODIS) 
True colour: Bands 1-4-3 
False Colour: Bands 7-2-1
The links provide a 500m resolution for both scenes
The smoke appears to flow southward in a great river. Only the skies over the high deserts of Chile appear clear.
(Source: Earth Observatory)
The following image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite was captured on 17 August 2005.
TERRA
17 August 2005
14:10 hrs UTC
(Image courtesy MODIS) 
True colour: Bands 1-4-3 
False Colour: Bands 7-2-1
Along the southeastern margin of the Amazon Rainforest, people are creating islands of rainforest surrounded by farms and ranches. Fire is a common land-clearing or land-management tool in the region, and numerous fires were detected by MODIS in the image and are marked with red dots.
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