Siberian fires have devastated eastern Russia this fire season. The smoke causes problems after the fact as it drifts eastward.
NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite captured this image of the smoke drifting eastward from the devastating Siberian fires that have broken out all over Eastern Russia. In this image, the smoke is drifting over the Sakhalin Island and on across the Sea of Okhotsk. This natural-color image was collected on July 20, 2015. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC. Caption by Lynn Jenner
