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Wonder of Science Feb 20, 2025

This 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

Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands

A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station in 2009 offered the astronauts a striking view of the volcano in an early stage of eruption.

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WesDym

@wonderofscience SOME volcanic eruptions look like this, but some others don't. There are different kinds of volcanoes and eruptions.

This still-movie is of the 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak in Russia, taken from ISS. This was a Plinian eruption, one of the most violent and dramatic kinds.