Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Huge carbon monoxide plume from Amazon rainforest fires

The devastating effect of the Amazon forest fires on our planet have been revealed in a NASA time series.

The images, created using data from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard the Aqua satellite, show a giant carbon monoxide plume gathering over Brazil.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/huge-carbon-monoxide-plume-amazon-19007167