As is common during the dry season, satellites detected many fires in Northern Territory.
Image of the Day Land Fires
Exceptional heat fueled fires across Australia in January 2013. Tasmania and New South Wales were among the hardest-hit areas.
Many large fires burn across central Australia in this image from September 30, 2011.
The beginning of the dry season also brings the beginning of the burning season to fire-prone savannas and grasslands.
Thick smoke blankets hundreds of kilometers around Alice Springs, Australia, in this image from September 29, 2011.
Heat Land Fires
Fires
The satellite-based atlas includes information about more than 13 million fires.
Image of the Day Remote Sensing
Smoke drifts over the aquamarine waters off northern Australia in this true color image taken on July 30 as the winter fire season gets underway.
Land Fires
Melbourne was not the only bright spot in the nighttime view of Victoria. A massive bushfire rivals the city in size.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Fires Human Presence
Though fires are larger and more frequent at the end of the dry season, several fires burned in Western Australia and Northern Territory in April 2015.
Hazardous fire conditions led to widespread, large fires in Queensland, Australia in mid-November.
Acquired September 24, 2009, these true-color images show wide-area and close-up views of fires in Queensland, Australia.
Atmosphere Land Fires
Scientists have found a way to detect nighttime fires even sooner, when they are still relatively small.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Remote Sensing
This true-color image shows a large fire burning on the western coast of Scotland.
Numerous fires clouded the skies of southern Queensland with smoke on September 26, 2011.