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All Eyes on Tonga’s Kingdom of Volcanoes

An undersea eruption at Lateiki Island in late October 2019 has brought new life to an older island in the Tonga chain.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Kathryn Hansen, with information courtesy of Taaniela Kula and the government of the Kingdom of Tonga.

Published November 26, 2019
Data acquired October 16 - November 17, 2019

Sources:
Landsat 8
Space Shuttle > SRTM