Envisat environmental satellite image of northern Iraq, acquired the same day as the media reported a fire affecting a segment of oil pipeline near the town of Hawija.
Burning oil cloud above northern Iraq
A burning oil pipeline in northern Iraq produced an immense cloud of black smoke that stretched across thousands of square kilometres, in an image acquired by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer.
The dense cloud of smoke has an extent comparable to the Iranian lake Urmia (which has an area of 4700 square kilometres), seen in turquoise colour towards the top right of the image. Authorities stated it took two days to bring the fire under control.
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