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A number of wildfires burning in southwestern Russia filled the skies over Moscow with a thick pall of smoke on July 30-31, 2002. This true-color scene was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, on July 30.
Image courtesy Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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