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Ash and Snow at Shiveluch

An eruption from one of the most active volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula deposited a long trail of ash across the landscape.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Adam Voiland, with fact checking by Janine Krippner (Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program).

Published April 19, 2019
Data acquired April 19, 2018

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI