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English: NASA’s Aqua satellite spotted smoke from fires burning in western Croatia and Montenegro along the coast of the Adriatic Sea in mid-July 2017. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of the fires at 8:20 a.m. EDT (1220 UTC) on July 17.

Red “hot spots” mark areas where the thermal bands on the MODIS image detected high temperatures. When accompanied by typical gray smoke, as in this image, such hot spots indicate actively burning fire.

The northernmost wildfires were burning near Benkovac, Croatia and Lake Vrana. Those fires created a large plume of light brown smoke that extended southwest over the Kornati National Park. The park is part of an archipelago also known as the Stomorski islands. The archipelago stretches 8 miles (13 km) from northeast to southwest in the Adriatic Sea.

The plume of smoke located in the center of the image was generated from fires burning around Srinjene, near the coastal town of Split, Croatia. That larger plume of smoke also extended to the southwest over the Adriatic.

The southernmost plume of smoke rose from wildfires on the Lustica peninsula of southwestern Montenegro and appear to be burning near the Solila Nature Reserve, located south of Tivat and the Bay of Kotor.