Burn scars from the large fires that raged on the western side of Portugal's Madeira Island recently were visible from NASA's Terra satellite in space.
Burn scars from the large fires that raged on the western side of Portugal’s Madeira Island recently were visible from NASA’s Terra satellite in space.
Madeira is an archipelago of four islands located off the northwest coast of Africa. They are an autonomous region of Portugal.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image at 7:40 a.m. EDT (11:40 UTC).
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, NASA Goddard Rapid Response Team. Caption: NASA/Goddard, Rob Gutro