NASA MODIS Image of the Day: June 18, 2011 – Fires in northern Australia
NASA MODIS Image of the Day: June 18, 2011 - Fires in northern Australia
Smoke from fires burning in the Northern Territory province of Australia were evident on recent NASA satellite imagery from June 16, 2011 at 4:35 UTC (12:35 a.
m.
EDT). That’s when NASA’s Aqua satellite flew overhead and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument indentified fires and the smoke streaming from them in a visible image. The red dots in the image are hotspots associated with unusually high surface temperatures characteristic of fires. Most of the smoke in this image appears in the northern peninsula, which faces the Arafura Sea.
