Negeethluk River Fire
Negeethluk River Firein Alaska
6 June 2006
Started by lightning at the end of May (the fire was discovered on31 May 2006), the Negeethluk River Fire had grown to about 2,500 acres (just over 10 square kilometers) as of5 June 2006. The fire is in western Alaska to the northeast of the Yukon River town of Marshall. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite was captured on 4 June 2006; red outlines are places where MODIS detected active fire. A cloud of smoke spreadsouthwest.
TERRA
4 June 2006
(source: EarthObservatory)
This image is shown at MODIS maximum spatial resolution (level of detail), which is 250 meters perpixel. The large image shows a much wider area, including the Yukon River Delta, at the same resolution.
