NASA MODIS Image of the Day: April 26, 2007 – Fires in South-Central Russia
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Separated by a ridge of mountains, the Ob and Yenisey Rivers of south-central Russia flow northward toward the Arctic Ocean. On April 24, 2007, the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of scores of fires burning in the area around these two rivers.
Snow still blankets the peaks of the Altay Mountains in the south, but the lowlands are free of snow. These fires are probably agricultural fires that people have set to prepare land for the upcoming growing season.
