Eruption at Mount Merapi, Indonesia

Signs of the eruption at Mount Merapi managed to punctuate the persistent cloud cover over Java on November 5, 2010.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Eruption at Mount Merapi, Indonesia.

NASA image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott and Mike Carlowicz.

Published November 6, 2010
Data acquired November 5, 2010