Examples of oil fires in Kuwait & Iraq (courtesy Eumetsat)

Occasionally some special features are visible in Meteosat images. Especially in the high resolution visible image (2.5km x 2.5km resolution at sub-satellite point) those features are best observable.
In the image sequences below two examples of black smoke plumes resulting from oil fires in Kuwait and Iraq are shown. The first sequence was taken during the gulf war in 1991, while the second sequence was seen in early 1997.