Image: Smoke over Western Russia
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 14:56
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hundreds of fires burned across western Russia on August 2, 2010, but it is the smoke that conveys the magnitude of the disaster in this true-color image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.