Forest fires continue to plague the hot, dry western part of the United States this summer. In Idaho, several fires were spotted by NASA’s Aqua satellite on July 20, 2013. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red. …read more
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Dozens of red hot spots cluster at the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. To the south, fires also speckle the neck of the Yucatan, Guatemala, and Belize. Each hot spot, which appears as a red mark, is an area where the thermal detectors on the MODIS instrument recognized temperatures higher than background. When accompanied by plumes of smoke, as in this image, such hot spots are diagnostic for fire.
