Over a hundred fires were detected burning in the southern portion of Russia's West Siberian Plain on April 28, 2002, by NASA's Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra satellite.

Please note that the high-resolution scene provided here is 500 meters per pixel. For a copy of this scene at the sensor?s fullest resolution, visit the MODIS Rapidfire site.

Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

Instrument: 

Terra - MODIS