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Data acquired January 2 - 4, 2008 540 x 315 JPEG
Data acquired January 2 - 4, 2008 1288 x 757 91 KB - JPEG
On January 1, 2008, Chile’s Llaima Volcano erupted, raining ash on the local wilderness park and sending a column of smoke skyward. In addition to volcanic ash, Llaima’s eruption released a plume of sulfur dioxide. The initially intense plume thinned as it moved eastward.
NASA image courtesy Simon Carn, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The OMI instrument is a Dutch-Finnish Instrument, provided to the EOS/Aura mission by The Netherlands and Finland. Text by Simon Carn and Michon Scott.
Published January 9, 2008 Data acquired January 2 - 4, 2008