A fire at an oil depot south of Jiapur, India, that began on October 29, 2009, was still burning on November 2 when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. At the time of this image, winds were pushing a black plume of smoke southeast toward the Banas River, however, at other times, the smoke blew northward into the city.
NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey, NASA Earth Observatory.
