Fires in Central America
Fires in Mexico and Central America
25 May 2007
Fires and smoke were widespread across southern Mexico and northern Central America in mid-May 2007. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite shows places where the sensor detected actively burning fires on 22 May marked in red.
AQUA
22 May 2007
Part of the washed-out appearance of the water in the eastern part of Campeche Bay is fromsunglint, or glare from sunlight, but there is also smoke spreading both north and south of theisthmus. Both intentional agricultural fires and accidental and natural wildfires occur in this part of the world in Northern Hemisphere winter and spring. The rainy season usually begins in late May to earlyJune, bringing fire season to a close.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of250 meters per pixel.
(source: EarthObservatory)
