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Plume from Nyiragongo

A lava lake persists in the caldera of Nyiragongo Volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Plume from Nyiragongo.

NASA image by Jesse Allen & Robert Simmon, using ALI data from the EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.

Published June 2, 2010
Data acquired May 28, 2010

Source:: EO-1 > ALI