NASA MODIS Image of the Day: October 31, 2011 – Fires in northeastern China
NASA MODIS Image of the Day: October 31, 2011 - Fires in northeastern China
A smoky haze hovers over hundreds of kilometers of land across northern China and eastern Russia in late October, 2011 as strong across the region winds fanned the flames.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on October 19, 2011 as it passed over the region.
Red hotspots mark thermal anomalies – areas where the temperature is higher than the background temperature. Combined with smoke plumes, these hotspots indicate active fires. According to news reports, some of the fires in China were burning in and near forest farms in China’s Heilongjiang Province, and threatening thousands of people and their property.
