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Pumice from Undersea Eruption Spreads across South Pacific

Satellite images show winds and currents spread the pumice raft erupted by the Havre Seamount.


NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC. Caption by Robert Simmon.

Published August 15, 2012
Data acquired August 13, 2012

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS