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Summary
Description 2010 Fires in South America.jpg |
English:
The
fires
are outlined in
red
. Most of the fires are concentrated in Bolivia, where the governments of two states had declared a state of
emergency
because of widespread fires three days earlier. Scores of fires also burn in
Brazil
,
Paraguay
, and
Argentina
.
The fires cloak the
heart
of
South America
in
gray
-
white
smoke
. Spreading north and south along the east side of the
Andes
Mountains
, the smoke extends over the entire 2,500-kilometre length of the image. While some fires do occur naturally in Bolivia, most of these fires were probably set deliberately to clear land for
crops
or
pasture
.
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Date | |
Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
Author | Jeff Schmaltz |
Image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Image courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.
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