On March 12, 2009, the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite caught a glimpse of a relatively rare event: large–scale forest fires in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal.
Atmosphere Land Life Fires Human Presence
Wildfires burned through Nepal’s forests amid dry conditions.
Atmosphere Land Fires
An arc of hundreds of individual fires wraps around the northern part of Cambodia, north of the Tônlé Sab lake, on February 9, 2009.
Land Life Fires Human Presence
Fires
Hundreds of fires veiled northern Indochina in smoke as the traditional land-use burning season neared its peak.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Fires
Large, smoky fires were burning in the forested mountains of Russia’s Buryatia region and Mongolia’s Belenge province on May 21, 2009.
Dozens of fires burn in farmland around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap in this photo-like image taken on January 21, 2011.
Land Fires
Widespread forest fires veiled the forests of Siberia in a thick curtain of smoke on July 18, 2011.