Space station captures image of exploding volcano
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Jun/09Comments
Jun/09Comments
It just so happened that the International Space Station was hanging out over northeast Japan where the Sarychev Volcano was erupting with brilliant photographic quality on June 12th, 2009. This volcano was in the early stages of an eruption and is one of the more active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain. What a great view.
International Space Station image of erupting volcano (NASA)
As you can see, the quality of the image is superb – thanks to Nasa for the use of the image. As Nasa states, “This detailed astronaut photograph is exciting to volcanologists because it captures several phenomena that occur during the earliest stages of an explosive volcanic eruption.” I can definitely see why.
