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Fires in Quebec

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Jun 20, 2013
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2013-06-19 00:00:00
June 19, 2013

On June 19, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of a large wildfire burning in western Quebec, near the shoreline of Hudson Bay. (The center of the image is roughly 77.7° West and 52.6° North.) Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire. Winds pushed thick smoke to the northeast.

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  2. NASA (2013, June 19) MODIS Rapid Response Gallery. Accessed June 2013.

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

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