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Explosive Eruption at Paluweh

April 19, 2013

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Sporadic eruptions from Paluweh Volcano have been sending ash and volcanic gases into the air since late 2012. This natural-color image was acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on April 19, 2013.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.

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Ash and volcanic gases rise above this volcano in Indonesia.

Instrument:: EO-1 — ALI

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