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North of Lake Victoria (bottom left) scores of fires were burning in eastern Africa on April 9, 2003. The fires were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite and are marked with red dots in this true-color image.
Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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