On July 29, fires peppered the ground while smoke spread across the skies over eastern China.
On July 29, 2016, fires peppered the ground while smoke spread across the skies over eastern China. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image. Dozens of fires, marked by red outlines, appear south and southwest of Beijing. Smoke appears most thick over the Shandong Bandao peninsula. Many, if not most, of the fires in this image are agricultural fires.
The Shandong Peninsula is between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south, and is part of the Shandong province in eastern China.
Image Credit: NASA MODIS Rapid Response, Jeff Schmaltz, Text: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Rob Gutro