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Fires in New Guinea

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Oct 21, 2003
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2003-10-20 00:00:00
October 20, 2003

North of Australia’s Cape York Peninsula (bottom center), dozens of fires were burning across the island of New Guinea on October 20, 2003. The fires, which were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, have been marked with red dots in the image. Smoke drifts to the northwest from many of the fires and hangs over the tip of Australia, as well.

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Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

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