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Fires Along the Adriatic Coast

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Jul 21, 2017
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2017-07-17 00:00:00
July 17, 2017

On July 17, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image of wildfires burning along the coasts of Croatia and Montenegro at the height of tourist season. Aided by favorable weather, firefighters managed to turn back one of the blazes in Croatia before it reached Split, the nation’s second-largest city.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

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