Satellite Photos Of Grimvotn Volcano Eruption
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The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of the Grimsvotn volcano eruption in Iceland on May 22, 2011 at 13:00 UTC (1:00 p.m. local time). CREDIT: NASA /Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. |
The vast ash cloud spewing from Iceland’s Grimvotn volcano is unmistakable from space in new photos snapped by NASA satellites.
The photos were taken just eight hours apart on May 22, just one day after the May 21 Grimsvotn volcano eruption began to unleash its huge plume of ash and steam. They reveal a huge cloud of ash that shot 12 miles (15 km) above sea level at its peak. [>Satellite photos of Grimvotn volcano eruption]
The Grimvotn volcano began erupting Saturday at 5:30 p.m. local time on May 21. The next day, NASA’s Aqua satellite spotted the eruption at about 5 a.m. local time, showing the volcano plume as a huge, dark blemish at the center of a field of white clouds.
Eight hours later, NASA’s Terra satellite caught a natural color view of the volcano from orbit. That image, recorded at about 1 p.m. local time, revealed the Grimvotn plume as a vast cauldron of hot ash and steam.
In the Terra image, the plume directly above the volcano summit towers over the surrounding clouds and is made up of a roughly circular cloud. Ash has rained down around surrounding regions, coating the snow-covered regions to the volcano’s southeast in a dark brown gloom.
The volcano has already triggered some spectacular lightning storms, and actually spawned about 1,000 times more lightning strikes per hour than the eruption of Iceland’s last major volcano event, Eyjafjallajokull. [Photos of Grimsvotn Volcano Lightning Show]
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