April 17, 2019
On April 17, 2019, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image of a large wildfire burning in rugged, forested terrain west of Cienega de Escobar in Durango, Mexico. The sensor first detected evidence of the fire two days earlier. The blaze was one of 95 wildfires of varying sizes burning in 18 Mexican states, according to news reports.
References & Resources
- Agencia EFP (2019, April 17) Firefighters battle wildfires in 18 Mexican states. Accessed April 18, 2019.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Adam Voiland, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Caption by Adam Voiland.
