Fires in Chile
Fires in Chile
3 February 2009
Fires in Central Chile
Several fires were burning in central Chile on 21 January 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured this image. The image shows parts of Octava Region (northern part of sceneo and the Novena Region (southern). Several of the fires (outlined in red) were small, and were probably brush-clearing or other agricultural fires, but one of the fires affected a larger area. The large area and thick smoke plume suggest a wildfire.
AQUA
21 January 2009
The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS full spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel.
(source: earth observatory)
