Wonder of ScienceThis is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.
Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands
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it's B! Cavello š@wonderofscience description: giant column of smoke and debris in parallax as the camera passes overhead
Wren (they/them)@b_cavello @wonderofscience Just curious, is there anythhing visible of general lava? I'm not entirely sure how to interpret the debris portion. Thank you for describing. It really helps.
airik@CrescentSays @b_cavello @wonderofscience no lava. Often thereās an explosion of steam/gases/ash first and lava may follow.
acm@airik and ash. I think this is called an ash plume (although clearly with steam frosting)...
Shirley Eugest@CrescentSays @b_cavello @wonderofscience
No visible lava. This was the first day of a new eruption of a very active stratovolcano, Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands. The eruptive force shot a column of ash straight up into the air. The photo shows the ash column pushing through clouds above.
The force of any explosion tends to be in every direction. You see a thick cloud of ash and tephra (pyroclastic flow) shooting outward from the caldera. This settles down after the first explosion.
No visible lava. This was the first day of a new eruption of a very active stratovolcano, Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands. The eruptive force shot a column of ash straight up into the air. The photo shows the ash column pushing through clouds above.
The force of any explosion tends to be in every direction. You see a thick cloud of ash and tephra (pyroclastic flow) shooting outward from the caldera. This settles down after the first explosion.
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Thank you. This GIF was from an archived page on the site.
"Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands
June 12, 2009
Photographed from International Space Station - Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048
Ostrov Matua islands showing main column of a new explosive eruption main column plus a pyroclastic flow down the peak."
Ben, Writinā Movies@wonderofscience There's something beautiful and terrifying about this at the same time. š¬
Ertain@wonderofscience That is amazing and awe-inspiring.
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David Luce@wonderofscience Very cool. It looks like it punched a hole through the cloud layer and still has water vapor at the top of the ash plume!
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Wm.sonI love the way the clouds are pushed away from the rising heat, ash, dust, whatever.
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Char@wonderofscience lovely example of the plume reaching thermal equilibrium
Ian Stuart@wonderofscience Iām pretty sure I recognize the āglitchesā of #opticalFlow when I see it. Optical flow is an algorithm that can be used to create new frames/images that didnāt previously exist by supposing which way pixels from one image to the next are moving. In the upper left of the graphic in the first few seconds the clouds move the wrong way.
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Andy@wonderofscience Thatās a seriously impressive pic. I love being surprised by photos like this!
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