A blocking high-pressure system and a heat wave helped fuel an outbreak of wildfires in far northern Siberia.
Image of the Day Heat Land Fires
On June 27, 2013, NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of wildfires burning in northeastern Russia.
Atmosphere Land Fires
Thick smoke from fires burning in western Russia fills the width of this image, a composite of three separate satellite images acquired on August 3, 2010.
Atmosphere Dust and Haze
Heavy smoke hangs over eastern Russia from scores of intense wildfires in this image from May 26, 2011.
Land Fires
Widespread forest fires veiled the forests of Siberia in a thick curtain of smoke on July 18, 2011.
Wildfires burned in eastern Russia on August 28, 2012.
Fires
Aerosols from the smoky blazes rose as high at 9 kilometers into the atmosphere.
Thick smoke billowed from fires in Yakutia on July 10, 2012.
Image of the Day Land
Fires in the Far East of Russia produced large amounts of smoke on June 28, 2012.
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