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Fires along Lena River near Yakutsk

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Jul 23, 2002
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2024-07-23 12:00:00
July 23, 2002

The Lena River in central Siberia is hidden beneath a veil of smoke from multiple wildfires burning around the city of Yakutsk, Russia. Fires have been burning in the region off and on since late May 2002, and may be agricultural in cause. This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 23, 2002.

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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

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