Australian Fires

This satellite image from January 2020 taken by NASA MODIS Satellite published in an Argentinian newspaper, Página 12, shows the Southeastern region of Australia covered in smoke by the wildfires. Although wildfires are not a strange thing in Australia, the unprecedented magnitude of these ones was-  burning over 46 million acres of land during over 4 months .

The smoke from the fires, visible here as the light grey cloud like structure in the center of the image- much larger than the small white regular clouds, took over the Australian sky, and had a plume that even reached Chile and Argentina, and lasted for three months.