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Low-Level Volcanic Activity Impacts Clouds

It is not difficult to imagine that a gigantic volcanic eruption spewing thick clouds of ash and gas high into the atmosphere would change the weather. But these satellite images show that a small, steady, simmering eruption also affects the atmosphere.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Low-Level Volcanic Activity Impacts Clouds.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using MODIS data provided courtesy of Santiago Gasso. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published January 31, 2008
Data acquired April 27, 2006

Source:: Aqua > MODIS