Images captured this Sunday, the 15th, by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a telescope from the American Aerospace Agency (NASA), show Brazil covered in smoke, especially in the western region, where fires are taking place in the Amazon and the Pantanal.
The DSCVOR, launched into space in February 2015, has a unique orbit and, due to its distance from planet Earth, allows it to monitor atmospheric and space phenomena from a broad perspective. It is 1.5 million kilometers from Earth and more than 148 million kilometers from the Sun.
It is possible to see through the equipment, for example, the flow of clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere. However, the air mass that appears over almost half of the Brazilian territory this time is grayish, the color of smoke from fires.
The capture of smoke in images via DSCVOR, a satellite so far from Earth, means that there is a large volume. The satellite image shows a large gray corridor, with the largest volume in the Amazon Rainforest and Pantanal regions, but which descends towards the South of the country.
In the first half of the year, the Amazon Rainforest also had the highest number of fires and has seen rivers reach their lowest levels in history, posing risks to river transport, fishing, water supply and tourism.
This content was originally published in NASA captures images of smoke from fires over Brazil on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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