Satellite Image, Photo of Romania, September 21 2003

Shades of green color Romania in this true-color Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from September 21, 2003. The dark green of mountains stand out in sharp relief against the paler brown-green of the lower elevations, providing visual clues to the varied terrain found in this part of the world.

In central Romania, the Carpathians run into the eastern end of the Transylvanian Alps, which run horizontally across the country to the Serbian border. Running down the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea (left) are the Dinaric Alps; farther south, the Pindos Mountains run from southern Albania throughout Greece.

Scattered throughout the image are a number of fires, all of which are marked with bright red dots. The majority of the fires are clustered in agricultural regions, though a few appear to be burning in wooded areas.

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