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Fires in South America

More than 148,900 fire detections are in this image of Brazil and Bolivia from August 23, 2010.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Fires in South America.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 26, 2010
Data acquired August 23, 2010