[:ja]ルカ・パルミタノ宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したアルゼンチン北部の火事の様子です。アンデス山脈とチリ、太平洋が見えています。
南半球の南米はちょうど冬から春に季節が移っていますが、パラグアイの首都アスンシオンで9月26日に42.2℃とる観測史上最高気温を記録するなど、高温が続いています。また、アルゼンチン北部でも45.5℃の高温が観測されています。アルゼンチン北部からパンタナル（ブラジル、パラグアイ、ボリビアにまたがる世界最大の湿地）では、高温とともに記録的な少雨が続き、かつてない規模の山火事が発生しています。乾期である冬季には、例年、放牧や農耕のために野焼きが行われますが、今年は「50年来で最悪」ともいわれる干ばつにより、火が拡大を続けています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Luca Parmitano’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.1137: Amazon Forest Fire🇦🇷
Astronaut Luca Parmitano captured from ISS fires in the northern Argentina and the Pantanal (a natural region encompassing the world’s largest tropical wetland area that extends Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay).
South America has just come out of winter but 2020’s fires in the region have been unprecedented in extent and duration. 22% of the vast floodplain has succumbed to the flames. This equivalent of more than twice the area that has burnt in the record-breaking fires in California this year. The fires in the Pantanal raged across Brazil and areas nearby between January and August.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Luca Parmitano’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.1137: Amazon Forest Fire🇦🇷
Astronaut Luca Parmitano captured from ISS fires in the northern Argentina and the Pantanal (a natural region encompassing the world’s largest tropical wetland area that extends Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay).
South America has just come out of winter but 2020’s fires in the region have been unprecedented in extent and duration. 22% of the vast floodplain has succumbed to the flames. This equivalent of more than twice the area that has burnt in the record-breaking fires in California this year. The fires in the Pantanal raged across Brazil and areas nearby between January and August.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Luca Parmitano’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]