Fires and smoke across Central America

Southern Mexico (left and center), Guatemala (below center), El Salvador (bottom center), Honduras (lower right), and Nicaragua (lower right corner) are blanketed with smoke from hundreds of fires (marked with red dots) burning in the region on PAril 28, 2003. These fires have been burning off and on for two months, periodically sending smoke northward across the Gulf of Mexico toward the southern U.S.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published April 28, 2003
Data acquired April 28 - 28, 2003

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Topic:

Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Fires

Collections:

MODIS Rapid Response

Visible Earth