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Fires across Southern Africa

The southernAfrica biomass burning season is in full swing across (clockwise fromtop left) Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique,Zimbabwe, and Malawi (center). Fires, marked with red dots, are anintegral part of the farming and grazing practices in the region. Thisimage was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer(MODIS) on the Aquasatellite on August 18, 2003.


Images by the MODIS Rapid Response team.

Published August 18, 2003
Data acquired August 18, 2003

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Terra > MODIS
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