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Agricultural Fires in Northern India

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2003-11-03 00:00:00
November 3, 2003

Smoke from agricultural fires in northwest India continued to fill the front range of the Himalaya Mountains with smoke on November 3, 2003. This image is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite.

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Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

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