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NASA Earth Observatory Collection
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NASA Earth Observatory Collection
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Fires in Argentina and Paraguay
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Fires in Argentina and Paraguay
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Scores of fires were burning in central South America and were detected by the Mod erate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqu a satellite on April 16, 2003. Fires (red dots) are visible is Paraguay (top center) and Argentina (left). Right of center, fires are burning in the peninsula-like Misiones region of Argentina, which harbors some of the last remaining tracts of a unique rainforest ecosystem known as Atlantic Rainforest. The ecosystem, which is different from the Amazon rainforest of the interior portion of the continent, once stretched hundred of miles inland along most of the eastern South American coastline, but it has been almost completely cut down in the centuries since European settlement. 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 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MOD IS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Description
Scores of fires were burning in central South America and were detected by the Mod erate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqu a satellite on April 16, 2003. Fires (red dots) are visible is Paraguay (top center) and Argentina (left). Right of center, fires are burning in the peninsula-like Misiones region of Argentina, which harbors some of the last remaining tracts of a unique rainforest ecosystem known as Atlantic Rainforest. The ecosystem, which is different from the Amazon rainforest of the interior portion of the continent, once stretched hundred of miles inland along most of the eastern South American coastline, but it has been almost completely cut down in the centuries since European settlement. 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 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MOD IS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC Description
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Aqua- MODIS
Satellite_-_Sensor
Aqua- MODIS
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Aqua
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Aqua
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Argentina
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Argentina
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Paraguay
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Paraguay
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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April 16, 2003
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April 16, 2003
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2003
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2003
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UID:
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SPD-ETOBS-10182
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