This true-color image from the modis.gsfc.nasa.gov Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on the aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite shows scores of fires (red dots) burning across Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. This image was captured on June 30, 2003.
The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2003181-0630/Madagascar.A2003181.1040.250m.jpg 250 meters.
Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
| Date Taken: | 07.23.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 02.08.2013 18:35 |
| Photo ID: | 855774 |
| Resolution: | 2500x3300 |
| Size: | 2.12 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, D.C., US |
| Web Views: | 9 |
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