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Fires in Central Canada

Multiple large fires were burning in Saskatchewan and Manitoba Provinces in central Canada on June 30, 2008, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image. Places where the sensor detected actively burning fires are marked in red; a strong wind was blowing east-southeast and spreading thick plumes of gray-brown smoke.

Image credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team
Text credit: Rebecca Lindsey, NASA's Earth Observatory