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Fires in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia

Huge fires are burning out of control throughout New South Wales Australia. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer image was acquired by the Aqua satellite on October 19, 2002. At the bottom of the image, a long plume of smoke wafts over the Tasman Sea from a fire in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney. A dense cluster of active fires between Sydney and Brisbane (just inland of the second small peninsula extending northward from the mainland) are billowing heavy smoke

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published October 20, 2002
Data acquired October 19 - 19, 2002

Source:
Aqua > MODIS
Topic:
Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Fires
Collections:
MODIS Rapid Response
Visible Earth