Southern Queensland
Credit: Jeff Schmaltz; MODIS team; NASA, Posted on: Saturday, 25 November 2006, 10:42 CST Download full size image
Scores of fires were burning in southern Queensland on November 17, 2006, when the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. Some of the fires, such as one on Fraser Island at far right in the image, are generating thick plumes of smoke. In this part of Queensland, outcrops of low, forested mountains (dark greenish-brown) mingle with savanna (tan) and croplands (green) at lower elevations.
The Queensland government issued a fire alert on November 16,warning residents to be extra cautious about fire around bushland and grassland areas because dry, windy conditions were creating an elevated fire risk.
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