More than 148,900 fire detections are in this image of Brazil and Bolivia from August 23, 2010.
Published Aug 26, 2010
Fires were widespread across South America on August 24, 2006, when MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the continent and captured this image. The sensor detected scores of active fires (locations marked in red) in a variety of ecological regions, and thick smoke hung over the land in many places.
Published Aug 25, 2006
A handful of fires in the Bío-Bío region of Chile were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite on January 13, 2007. The largest of the fires are near the coast, south of the Itata River.
Published Jan 16, 2007
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