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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite shows multiple large bushfires in southeast Australia on January 12, 2003. Fires are marked with red. This concentration of fires is located in the Great Dividing Range Mountains at the border of New South Wales (north) and Victoria (south). The northernmost fires are burning in the Kosciuszko National Park in southern New South Wales. Gusty winds and high temperatures have hampered containment efforts, and the smoke is beginning to pose a health hazard. Across the Bass Strait, a large fire is burning on Flinders Island. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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On February 2, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite detected fires (red dots) still burning in southeast Australia. A shroud of smoke hangs over Victoria and stretches out over the Bass Strait. These fires have been burning for about one month. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Fires in Victoria, Australia
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Fires in Victoria, Australia |
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Between Lake Eildon and the Dartmouth Reservoir in Victoria, Australia, dozens of active fires churned out thick clouds of smoke in early December. In remote, rugged terrain in the Great Dividing Range Mountains, firefighters battled the blazes in hot, windy conditions. This image of the area was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite on December 10, 2006. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fire are marked with red outlines. The smoke pours southeast over the Bass Strait. Puffy towers of clouds are embedded in the smoke, these clouds may be the result of strong updrafts and aerosols (particles in the air that can act as "seeds" for cloud droplets) produced by the fires themselves, or they may be part of the larger-scale weather pattern over the area. The next day, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?SEAustralia3/2006345 ] a swath of clouds over the region may have provided some relief for firefighters. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?SEAustralia3/ ] images of the region in additional resolutions. A 250-meter-resolution KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Dec2006/Australia.A2006344.0345.250m.kmz ] is available for use with Google Earth. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On February 2, 2003, the mod
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Australia.AMOA2003033
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2003-02-02 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Australia.AMOA2003033 |
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Fires in Victoria, Australia
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Between Lake Eildon and the
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SEAustralia3_AMO_2006344
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2006-12-10 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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SEAustralia3_AMO_2006344 |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
This true-color modis.gsfc.n
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Australia.AMOA2003012
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IMAGE |
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2003-01-12 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Australia.AMOA2003012 |
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