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On July 7, 2004, fires (marked in yellow) continued to burn around the headwaters of the Xingu River (center) in Mato Grosso, Brazil, at the southern margin of the Amazon rainforest.
Image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
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