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On June 19, 2013, NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites captured striking images of smoke billowing from illegal wildfires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The smoke blew east toward southern Malaysia and Singapore, and news media reported that thick clouds of haze had descended on Singapore, pushing pollution to record levels.

Both images above were captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), an instrument that observes the entire surface of Earth’s every 1 to 2 days. The top image shows smoke blowing east at 3:30 Universal Time (11:30 a.m. local time); the lower image shows the same area on the same afternoon at 6:30 UTC (2:30 p.m. local time).

19 Jun Morning (Terra MODIS)


19 Jun Afternoon (Aqua MODIS)


Smoke rose into the air from burning land near plantations in Rokan Hilir, Riau province, Indonesia, on Jun 19th. [Source]


http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81431