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Scores of fires were burning in the mountain chains lining hundreds of kilometers of Mexico’s Pacific Coast on May 17, 2005. This image shows fires (marked in red) detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The lush green forests of the Sierra Madre del Sur are partially hidden by smoke in the lower half of the image. The high-altitude cloud forests and other forest ecosystems in this area are some of Mexico’s last remaining large tracts of relatively undisturbed forest.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published May 18, 2005 Data acquired May 17, 2005