Fires in Baja California

Fires in Baja California

Wildfires burned in Baja California on September 23, 2009. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of a group of fires just south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Small fires burn north of Ensenada, the largest fire in that group producing a visible plume of smoke. South of Ensenada, another fire burns, and it produces a larger, thicker plume of gray-brown smoke. The smoke plumes blow toward the southwest, over the Pacific Ocean.

NASA image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott.