November 29, 2020 - Fires in Paraguay & Argentina

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   As the end of a year filled with high temperatures, widespread drought,
   and widespread destructive blazes approaches, many areas of South
   America still smolder and flame. On November 24, 2020, the Moderate
   Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua
   satellite acquired a true-color image of fires burning in Paraguay and
   Argentina.

   The silt-laden Parana River winds through the scene, forming the border
   between Argentina (south) and Paraguay (North). Red “hot spots” mark
   areas where the thermal bands on the MODIS instrument detected high
   temperatures. When combined with typical smoke, such hots spots
   indicate actively burning fire. Several small fires and one large one
   dot the landscape of Paraguay while three very large fires spread south
   of the Parana in Argentina. Brazil, located in the southeast and east,
   sits under wispy clouds and appears fire-free.

   The dark green peninsular arm of Argentina is the Misiones province,
   which contains a mostly intact remnant of the extremely endangered
   Atlantic Rainforest ecosystem. The fires appear to be burning south of
   Posadas, Argentina, the capital of Misiones province, likely outside of
   the remnant rainforest. When viewed at high resolution, two of the
   Argentinian fires appear to burn in tan agricultural land. The western
   fire, however, sits in an area colored deep green, typical of forest.
   This fire nearly encroaches on the border of Parque Iberá — a important
   protected area that encompasses an expansive wetland ecosystem as well
   as adjacent forests and grasslands. The deep green of Parque Iberá
   spreads to the southwest of the flames.

   Image Facts
   Satellite:  Aqua
   Date Acquired: 11/24/2020
   Resolutions:  1km (195 KB),  500m (756.9 KB),  250m (2.5 MB)
   Bands Used: 1,4,3
   Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



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