Fires Near Alice Springs, Australia

Thick smoke blankets hundreds of kilometers around Alice Springs, Australia, in this image from September 29, 2011.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Fires Near Alice Springs, Australia.

NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published September 29, 2011
Data acquired September 29, 2011