File:Global Fires - August and February 2008.jpg

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DescriptionGlobal Fires - August and February 2008.jpg	English: "The contrast between the two months is shown in this pair of images made from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. The top image shows all of the fires detected during August 2008, while the lower image shows February 2008. Dense fire concentrations are yellow, while more scattered fires are red."[1]
Date	31 December 2008
Source	http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36220
Author	NASA images by Reto Stockli and Jesse Allen using data courtesy the MODIS Land Science Team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

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