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On October 28, 2005, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of smoke pouring across the northern Pacific Ocean from dozens of fires (red dots) burning in Russia’s Far East.
NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
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