Sulfur Dioxide and Vog from Kilauea - related image preview

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Sulfur Dioxide and Vog from Kilauea

In late April 2008, Kilauea Volcano Volcano on Hawaii’s big island continued its pattern of increased activity, including elevated seismic tremors and emissions from the volcano’s Halema‘uma‘u vent.


NASA OMI image courtesy Simon Carn, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The OMI instrument is a Dutch-Finnish Instrument, provided to the EOS/Aura mission by the Netherlands and Finland. NASA MODIS image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response team. Caption by Michon Scott, with information from Simon Carn.

Published April 30, 2008
Data acquired April 26, 2008