NASA’s Aqua satellite spotted smoke from brush fires burning just south and east of Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 7.
NASA’s Aqua satellite spotted smoke from brush fires burning just south and east of Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 7.
This natural-color satellite image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard the Aqua satellite. The image, taken at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EDT/2139 UTC) on Dec. 7 and showed actively burning areas in red, as detected by MODIS’s thermal bands. At the time a thick plume of light brown smoke was blowing southwest and over the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
The Baja California Civil Protection Agency reported they are grass and brush fires.
NASA image courtesy NASA MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption: NASA/Goddard, Rob Gutro