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Following several explosive eruptions on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, volcanic ash poses myriad hazards in the air and on the ground.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and ICESat-2 data from the National Snow & Ice Center courtesy of Stephen Palm/NASA GSFC. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published April 28, 2021
Data acquired April 12, 2021

Sources:
ICESat-2 > ATLAS
Landsat 8 > OLI