Heat Lingers from Fuego’s Deadly Pyroclastic Debris Flows

A jumble of hot ash, rock, and soil poured down the slopes of the Guatemalan volcano in early June. Weeks later, satellites continued to detect elevated temperatures in the thick deposits.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Rüdiger Escobar-Wolf (Michigan Tech) and Janine Krippner (Concord University).

Published June 27, 2018
Data acquired June 24, 2018

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Landsat 8 > TIRS