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