A sea of wildfires are burning in eastern Russia. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image shows the scattered wildfires. While numerous of individual fires left of Lake Baikal are producing the smoke, a fire at the top left of this image appears to be producing a majority of it. The MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image on June 20, 2011 at 6:10 UTC (2:10 a.m. EDT). The red dots represent active fires and high surface area temperatures. Read More
