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Tonga Volcano Plume Reached the Mesosphere

The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (38 miles) into the atmosphere.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Tonga Volcano Plume Reached the Mesosphere.

NASA Earth Observatory images and video by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Kristopher Bedka and Konstantin Khlopenkov/NASA Langley Research Center, and GOES-17 imagery courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Story by Sofie Bates, NASA’s Earth Science News Team, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published February 16, 2022
Data acquired January 15, 2022

Sources:: GOES > ABI; Himawari-8 > Advanced Himawari Imager