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Data acquired May 28 - 28, 2002 850 x 650 120 KB - JPEG
Data acquired May 28 - 28, 2002 1700 x 1300 417 KB - JPEG
Data acquired May 28 - 28, 2002 3400 x 2600 1 MB - JPEG
This pair of true- and false-color images from MODIS on May 28, 2002, shows the handful of large wildfires burning in central Alaska. Smoke from the fires is drifting southwest and being hemmed in against the Alaska Range Mountains. The city of Fairbanks is located between and to the south of the two large clusters of fires northeast of center. At upper right is the Yukon River, and at upper left is the Brooks Range. The false-color image shows the large burned areas consumed by the fires. Vegetation is green, ice (both snow on the ground and ice particles in clouds) is blue, and the burned areas are reddish-brown.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published May 29, 2002 Data acquired May 28 - 28, 2002