Amazon fires visualized...
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NASA's AIRS instrument maps carbon monoxide (CO) from fires burning in Brazil's Amazon region.
This time series ⬇️ shows CO high in the atmosphere over Brazil from Aug. 8-22, 2019. Each "day" in the series is made by averaging three day's-worth of data:
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On August 20, @NASA/@NOAA's Suomi NPP mission captured this image of smoke and fire across several Brazilian states >>
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These two disturbing images illustrate the extent of the fires that are blazing through the Amazon right now.
One is from NASA's FIRMS, which pinpoints individual fires, and the other is from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, which shows biomass burning aerosol.
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These are the active fires in the #Amazon basin, from the Global Wildfire Information System we are developing with @NASAEarth and @GEOSEC2025
In red the fires detected in the past 24h, in orange those from the past week
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