Acquired July 2, 2010, this image shows fires burning along the Volga River in western Russia. A cluster of fires sends an opaque plume of smoke toward the northwest.
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.