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Fires Near Lake Baikal, Russia

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2024-04-26 12:00:00
April 26, 2002

On April 26, 2002, dozens of fires (red dots) were burning around Lake Baikal at the southern end of Russia’s Central Siberian Plateau. This image was acquired by NASA’s Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.

Please note that the high-resolution scene provided here is 500 meters per pixel. For a copy of this scene at the sensor's fullest resolution, visit the MODIS Rapidfire site.

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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

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