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Fires along Lena River near Yakutsk

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Aug 19, 2002

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2024-08-19 12:00:00

August 19, 2002

Scores of fires (red dots) along the Lena River (center) in eastern Russia are cloaking the skies over the Central Siberian Plateau with a thick shroud of smoke. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image was acquired on August 19, 2002.

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

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