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Data acquired June 18 - 18, 2002 900 x 700 175 KB - JPEG
Data acquired June 18 - 18, 2002 1800 x 1400 587 KB - JPEG
Data acquired June 18 - 18, 2002 3600 x 2800 2 MB - JPEG
In the Sakha region of Siberia, at the eastern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau, numerous fires are burning near the city of Yakutsk, along the bank of the Lena River. This first iamge in this series was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on May 22, 2002. Fires continued throughout the months of June and July, and dark burn scars began to appear in the true-color imagery. In the false-color images, vegetation is bright green and burned areas are reddish-brown. Considerable smoke has been present throughout the course of the fires.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published June 22, 2002 Data acquired June 18 - 18, 2002