English: A space image of the scale of the fire in the area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was obtained from the Sentinel-2 satellite on April 12, 2020. The image was obtained from an open-source web-based tool for browsing, visualization and analysis of satellite imagery of the EO-browser created as part of the Copernicus project. The сomposite is created in "artificial colors" where the following channels of the satellite image from different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are matched to the image colors: 1 - SWIR Band (1610 nm), 2 - NIR Band (842 nm), 3 - Red Band (665 nm) where fires are identified by a dark brown color. The space image shows that the fire was close to the Chornobyl cooling reservoir.

English: fire in the area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant