Australia Fires From Space Live

Bushfire smoke is blanketing cities in multiple states today prompting warnings from health experts to stay inside.

Australia fires from space live. Nearly 100 fires have torched an area bigger than Connecticut in New South Wales. The ISS whose first component was launched into low Earth orbit in 1998 is the largest artificial body in orbit and it often becomes visible with the naked eye from Earth. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.

Europes Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission has captured the multiple bushfires burning across Australias east coast. In the above image captured on Nov. Australias raging bushfires are so bad that satellites thousands of miles above Earth can easily spot their flames and smoke from space.

In this satellite image the smoke coming off the fires can be clearly seen as billowing clouds. Australian Wildfires A Live Story. NASA LANCE Fire Information for Resource Management System provides near real-time active fire data from MODIS and VIIRS to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.

The rains did not come in to affect the fires until January 5-6. The wildfires which began September have so. Satellite images taken on Saturday showed wildfires burning around East.

One image shared widely by Twitter users including by singer Rihanna was interpreted as a map showing the live extent of fire spread with large sections of the Australian. Images taken on Jan. At the time the space station was roughly 269 miles 433 kilometers above Australia at the time NASA said in the tweet.

13 0915 local time the fires burning near the coast are visible. Stunning Satellite Images As Rain Brings Relief to Australias Fires. Here is a photo provided by the space agency.