Fires in Russia
Fires in Russia
3 July 2008
The fires (red dots) visible along the shoreline of Russias Khabarovsk Province at the upper left of this image are only a few of the forest fires responsible for the river of smoke spreading eastward over the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kamchatka Peninsula on 2 July 2008. This natural-color image of the area was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite on 2 July. The large version of the image shows smoke spreading southward as far as Japan.
AQUA
2 July 2008
(source: earth observatory)
The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS maximum spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel.
