Fires in Australia
Fires in Queensland, Australia
6 November 2009
Multiple large fires were burning in the Buckland Tableland section of the Great Dividing Range Mountains in eastern Queensland on 3 November 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. These fires are concentrated farther south than previous images in this event.
(source: earth observatory)
Multiple large fires were burning in western Queensland. Smoke plumes from fires can be seen in this NOAA-17 satellite image taken at 2327 UTC.
IMAGE D6140: NOAA-17 <> Image Type=combine <> 11/4/2009 23:27:29 UTC.
source: www.osei.noaa.gov
