November 7, 2019
In November 2019, destructive bushfires raged near the coast of New South Wales, Australia, sending smoke billowing over the Tasman Sea. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image of the smoke plumes on November 7.
Fires that day burned from north of Sydney to near the border with Queensland. According to the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, 29 of the 69 fires burning across the state remained uncontrolled.
References & Resources
- NSW Rural Fire Service (2019, November 7) Major Fire Updates. Accessed November 7, 2019.
- Storyful via MSN (2019, November 7) Raging Bushfires Threaten Homes in New South Wales Town. Accessed November 7, 2019.
- Twitter (2019, November 7) NSW RFS. Accessed November 7, 2019.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Text by Kathryn Hansen.
