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NASA uses VIIRS satellite sensing to record thermal anomalies and report counts and locations
NASA is reporting thermal or active-fire detections derived from the VIIRS instrument. The reporting lists counts, date ranges and bounding boxes for specific regions. NASA consistently emphasises these detections record heat, not cause.
Recent entries from June 2026 show multiple short-term detection tallies for places including Venezuela, Mali, Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, West Africa and a Middle East box. NASA also notes thermal signatures can corroborate strikes, shelling, industrial fires or wildfires, but the raw product does not assign causal attribution.
- Detection platform named in the reporting is the VIIRS instrument on NASA satellites
- Thermal detections measure heat, not cause, and are presented as active fire/thermal anomalies
- NASA states thermal signatures can corroborate strikes, shelling, industrial fires or wildfires
- Venezuela tallies in June 2026 include 169 (2026-06-26), 93 (2026-06-27) and 158 (2026-06-23)
- Mali report includes a bounding box 13.87,-4.79 to 18.87,0.21, 99 detections and 6 high-confidence on 2026-06-25
- Other June 2026 reports: Ukraine 59 (2026-06-25), Gaza 52 (2026-06-22), Sudan 5 (2026-06-23), West Africa 86 (21-24 June), Middle East 24 (2026-06-24)
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