Fires on Sumatra

A thick cloud of smoke pours from forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Forest fires are common in Indonesia during the hot, dry months of the dry season, which runs from June to September.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Fires on Sumatra.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

Published June 28, 2005
Data acquired June 25, 2005

Source:: Terra > MODIS