Bushfires take over the landscape in the Northwest Territories and the north of Western Australia in this Aqua satellite image from May 24, 2015.
Bushfires take over the landscape in the Northwest Territories and the north of Western Australia in this Aqua satellite image from May 24, 2015. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red. Each hot spot, which appears as a red mark, is an area where the thermal detectors on the MODIS instrument recognized temperatures higher than background. When accompanied by plumes of smoke, as in this image, such hot spots are diagnostic for fire.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption: NASA/Goddard, Lynn Jenner