Widespread agricultural burning continues throughout central Africa, and smoke and fires were detected by NASA's Aqua satellite.
Widespread agricultural burning continues throughout central Africa, and smoke and fires were detected by NASA’s Aqua satellite. Most of the fires were burning in the southern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Zambia and Angola.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of smoke and fires burning in central Africa on July 28, 2015 at 12:10 UTC (8:10 a.m. EDT/U.S.). The multiple red pixels are heat signatures (red) detected by MODIS. The smoke appears to be a light brown color.
Image credit: NASA Goddard’s MODIS Rapid Response Team/Jeff Schmaltz
Text credit: Rob Gutro, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.