A new volcanic fissure near Eyjafjallajökull in southern Iceland indicates that the eruption at Fimmvörduháls is still going strong. The vent opened on the afternoon of March 31st, to the northwest of the original vent. This natural-color satellite image shows the area of the eruption on April 1. The image was acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.
NASA image by Robert Simmon, using ALI data from the EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.
A steam plume marks the site of a new volcanic fissure in the Fimmvörduháls Pass region of southern Iceland.
Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano burst into life on March 20, 2010. By the last week of May, it appeared to have quieted down.
