Plume from Kilauea’s Halema’uma’u Crater - related image preview

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Plume from Kilauea’s Halema’uma’u Crater

Acquired August 19, 2009, this true-color image shows a ghostly gray-blue plume blowing from the Halema'uma'u Overlook vent on the Kilauea Volcano. While the land surface around the vent is devoid of vegetation, plants apparently thrive to the east.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 Team. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published August 21, 2009
Data acquired August 19, 2009

Source:
EO-1 > ALI
Topics:
Land Surface > Landscape > Landscape Pattern
Solid Earth > Volcanoes > Eruption Dynamics
Solid Earth > Volcanoes > Volcanic Ash/Dust