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Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil

In 2007, the Amazon fire season was the worst of this decade. This pair of images shows deforestation and the smoke from intense fires in the 2007 dry season in northwest Rondônia, Brazil.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil.

NASA images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, based on data from the MODIS science team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published May 28, 2009
Data acquired August 12 - September 30, 2007

Source:: Terra > MODIS