Saturday, November 7, 2015

Volcanic ash plume from space


In late October 2015, a 3,726-meter (12,224-foot) volcano on the Indonesian island of Lombok began erupting. In the days that followed, ash from Mount Rinjani blanketed towns and farmland across three Indonesian islands and shut down air traffic to a number of airports.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites acquired this natural-color image of the plume. Ash drifted westward from Lombok toward Bali and Java. A small segment of eastern Java’s coast is visible to the southwest of Bali.



2 comments:

  1. Of course, regular earth events like this are never factored in to the 'Global Warming' argument...

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  2. Somebody send the US military to extinguish the volcano and prevent global warming or climate change.

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