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May 22, 2009 - Smoke over Northeastern China
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This image, captured by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite, shows wildfire smoke blowing across Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and northeastern China on May 18, 2009. Mongolia is in the top left and Inner Mongolia, a Mongol autonomous region of China, stretches along this border with the rest of China approximately to its south.
Blue-gray smoke forms diagonal lines running from northwest to southeast. The larger plume is on the west, and that plume appears to widen and thicken near the Bo Hai coast (lower right corner). Although the sources of these smoke plumes don’t appear in this image, they probably originate near the Siberia-Mongolia border. Both natural and human-caused fires in Siberia are common in the spring and summer, as an image from western Siberia illustrates.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 05/18/2009
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
This image, captured by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite, shows wildfire smoke blowing across Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and northeastern China on May 18, 2009. Mongolia is in the top left and Inner Mongolia, a Mongol autonomous region of China, stretches along this border with the rest of China approximately to its south.
Blue-gray smoke forms diagonal lines running from northwest to southeast. The larger plume is on the west, and that plume appears to widen and thicken near the Bo Hai coast (lower right corner). Although the sources of these smoke plumes don’t appear in this image, they probably originate near the Siberia-Mongolia border. Both natural and human-caused fires in Siberia are common in the spring and summer, as an image from western Siberia illustrates.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 05/18/2009
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
