Smoke Over the Barents Sea
Smoke Over the Barents Sea
3May 2006
Spring agricultural fires were burning in western Russia throughout the end of April and early May 2006. The smoke from these fires has been spreading northward over Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and out over the Barents Sea. This image from 30 April 2006, was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite. Smoke casts a gray pall over the blue waters of the ocean.
AQUA
30 April 2006
12:05 hrs UTC
(source: EarthObservatory)
The high-resolution image provided above has a spatialresolution of 500 meters per pixel.
