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Activity at Kizimen Volcano

Kamchatka’s Kizimen Volcano was emitting gas and steam from its summit in the afternoon of April 16, 2011. When the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image, a plume was blowing to the northwest from the summit.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Activity at Kizimen Volcano.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Jesse Allen.

Published April 19, 2011
Data acquired April 16, 2011

Source:: Aqua > MODIS