Amazon Burning From Space

European space agency astronaut luca parmitano tweeted earlier today aug.

Amazon burning from space. Multiple news outlets are reporting that brazil s national. The amazon rainforest has been on fire for the past month and new images from nasa give a glimpse at what the devastation looks like from space. The intense smoke was detected by nasa and plunged são paulo into.

Wildfires and plumes of smoke from the amazon rainforest can been seen from space in the latest set of satellite images captured by us space agency nasa. Brazil s amazon rainforest is burning and the fire can be seen from space. The amazon did not evolve to burn but for centuries fire has been used to clear space in the rainforest for agricultural crops from soybeans to palm to cattle.

Astronauts on board the international space station can also observe the smoke engulfing the amazon from space. In the middle of the day. The photo above taken on tuesday shows smoke and fires in the amazonas mato grosso and rondônia states of brazil.

Deforestation often leads to fire. Satellites from the space administration have been. Wildfires are currently burning so intensely in the amazon rainforest that smoke from the blaze has covered nearby cities in a dark haze.

Astronauts aboard the international space station are tracking the fires too sending back images of white smoke from the burning jungle streaming east over the atlantic pictures that would be. The disturbing photos show smoke and fire across several brazilian states as the crisis reaches record breaking levels. In august nasa released a picture of the amazon rainforest burning as seen from the iss.