Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Incredible Photos

A volcano on an uninhabited Russian island popped its cork recently, just as the space station zoomed overhead and took some amazing photos of the event.

A sample below:

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You can easily see two pyroclastic flows, one on the upper right of the cone, the other on the lower right... lighter in color.

Previous flows can be seen settling on and under the water.

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