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Fires (red dots) continue to smoke across the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia, on November 3, 2003. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image is from the Aqua satellite.
Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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