![Fire and Smoke in Western Russia on August 4, 2010 [high res]](http://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002066/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002066~orig.jpg)
NASA image acquired August 4, 2010 Intense fires continued to rage in western Russia on August 4, 2010. Burning in dry peat bogs and forests, the fires produced a dense plume of smoke that reached across hundreds of kilometers. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this view of the fires and smoke in three consecutive overpasses on NASA’s Terra satellite. The smooth gray-brown smoke hangs over the Russian landscape, completely obscuring the ground in places. The top image provides a close view of the fires immediately southeast of Moscow, while the lower image shows the full extent of the smoke plume. To read more about this image go to: <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45046" rel="nofollow">earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45046</a> NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. <b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html" rel="nofollow">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. <b>Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></b> <b>Join us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a><b></b></b>
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GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002066
Date Created
December 8, 2017
Center
GSFC
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Location
Greenbelt, MD
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