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Fire in Southern Greece

A tail of smoke descends from a fire at the tip of Greece
Smoke from a fire burning in the Lakonia area on the tip of Greece's southern Peloponnese peninsula was seen on July 17, 2015 at 9:20 UTC (5:20 a.m. EDT), when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured this image.

Smoke from a fire burning in the Lakonia area on the tip of Greece’s southern Peloponnese peninsula was seen on July 17, 2015 at 9:20 UTC (5:20 a.m. EDT), when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Smoke from the fire appears in a light brown plume streaming southwest of the island of Kythria. The places where the sensor detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. The fire has been burning since at least July 17.

Image: NASA Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response TeamText: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Rob Gutro