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Data acquired September 4 - 4, 2002 1950 x 1500 647 KB - JPEG
Data acquired September 4 - 4, 2002 3900 x 3000 2 MB - JPEG
Data acquired September 4 - 4, 2002 7800 x 6000 6 MB - JPEG
This series of images from September 2002 shows thick smoke being produced by numerous fires (red dots) in western Russia (upper right quadrant) and Belarus (lower right quadrant). Countries visible, but not labaled, along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea (left) are (from south to north) Poland, Russian Federation, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. At left is Sweden, and at top center is Finland. These images were acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published October 1, 2002 Data acquired September 4 - 4, 2002