Ash above Ubinas Volcano

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A pale ash plume extended southeastward from Peru’s Ubinas Volcano on May 15, 2014. The natural-color image was acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.

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

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Frequent ash plumes characterize the 2014 eruption of the Peruvian volcano.

Instrument:: EO-1 — ALI

Fresh Lava Arrives at Ubinas Volcano

Located in the Peruvian Andes, Ubinas has shown signs of an impending eruption since mid 2013, with the appearance of a fresh lava dome in March 2014. Frequent ash plumes rose above the volcano in May.