Fires in Korea

Fires in North Korea

30 April 2007

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Fires were scattered along the coast of Asia in late April 2007, likely the result of agricultural burning to prepare for the upcoming growing season. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on29 April 2007, shows locations where the sensor detected actively burning fires marked in red.

AQUA
29 April 2007

Fires extend from North Korea up into southeasternRussia. A few fires were also detected in China. Grayish smoke lingers over the coast of North Korea.

The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of250 meters per pixel.

(source: EarthObservatory)

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