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Collection:
NASA Earth Observatory Collection
Title:
Fires in Northern Australia
Description:
Several large fires and many scattered smaller ones were burning in Northern Territory, Australia, on October 11, 2004. This image of the fires (actively burning areas marked in red) shows the area imaged by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MO DIS) on NASA’s Aqu a satellite. Large-scale fires (dark brown terrain shows what has burned) are not uncommon for the tropical savannas and woodlands of northern Australia for this time of year, at the transition from dry to wet season. Sometimes the fires occur naturally through lightning strikes, and sometimes they are intentional, land management burns.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Satellite - Sensor:
Aqua- MODIS
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Aqua
facet_where:
Australia
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_when:
October 11, 2004
facet_when_year:
2004
UID:
SPD-ETOBS-12513
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Fires in Northern Australia