Australia Fires From Space 2019

The European Space Agencys Sentinel-2 satellite took this image of growing bushfires while passing over Bateman Bay on New Years Eve.

Australia fires from space 2019. 08 2019 using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS instrument onboard. NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and the smoke pouring off the edge of Australia and into the southern Pacific Ocean on Nov. 1 2021 A new study in Nature suggests that nutrient-rich aerosols generated by the record Australian bushfire season were sucked up by a gigantic phytoplankton bloom thousands of kilometres away in the Pacific Southern Ocean.

An unprecedented number of bushfires have erupted on the east coast of Australia due to hot dry windy weather. NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and the smoke pouring off the edge of Australia and into the southern Pacific Ocean on Nov. Daytime satellite views of the ground are equally if not more dramatic.

Explosive Fire Activity in Australia. A satellite image taken by NASAs Terra mission in January 2020 shows the extent of wildfire burns on Australias Kangaroo Island. Bateman Bay Australia on December 31 2019.

Australia battles bushfires every year but the current fire season is decisively one of the worst. The fires have scorched some 10 million hectares of land killed at least 27. Smoke billows from the scores of bushfires on Australia east coast in this image captured by NASAs Terra satellite on Nov.

New South Wales has been worst hit. The wildfires that originated in the state of New South Wales in September 2019 have rapidly spread throughout the continent swallowing more than 147 million acres across six states till date. Meteorologist Ivar van der Velde of the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research in Leiden and colleagues first examined carbon monoxide data collected over southeastern Australia by the satellite-based instrument TROPOMI from November 2019 to January 2020 during the worst of the fires.

Close to 11 million hectares 27. Nearly 100 fires have torched an area bigger than Connecticut in New South Wales. And smoke from Australian bushfires.