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Fires in Southeast Asia

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Feb 20, 2003
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Fires in Southeast Asia
February 19, 2003

On Feb. 19, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image of fires (red dots) scattered across India (top left), Myanmar (center), southern China (top right), Laos (center right), and Thailand (bottom right). In China, smog from the northeast can be seen filling the valleys. This image is centered farther west than others in this series.

The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters.

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Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC

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