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In southern Sudan (left) and eastern Ethiopia (right) NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite saw numerous fires burning on November 5, 2002. A faint, sinuous, gray-green line winding through the top center of the image is the Nile.
Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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