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Burning leftover straw after the rice harvest has once again blanketed the region with smoke.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) data from NASA EOSDIS.

Published November 17, 2020
Data acquired November 9, 2020

Sources:
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Terra > MODIS