This pair of satellite images was among the first detailed pictures of the erupting vent and lava flows.
Published Jun 28, 2011
In early September 2007, Tanzania&#rsquo;s Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano erupted, sending a cloud of ash into the atmosphere. The volcanic plume appears pale blue-gray, distinct near the summit, and growing more diffuse to the south. The charcoal-colored stains on the volcano’s flanks appear to be lava, but they are actually burn scars left behind by fires that were spawned by fast-flowing, narrow rivers of lava ejected by the volcano.
Published Sep 19, 2007
Nyamuragira volcano began spouting lava into the skies above Congo in November 2011, sending up spectacular water vapor clouds as well.
Published Nov 17, 2011
The Nicaraguan volcano erupted for the first time in more than a century.
Published Mar 5, 2016
A cycle of lava dome growth and collapse is feeding pyrolcastic flows and ash plumes at the Indonesian volcano.
Published Jan 29, 2014
Acquired December 1, 2012, these images provide natural- and false-color views of restless Tolbachik Volcano.
Published Dec 8, 2012
An ash plume billows above one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes.
Published Feb 23, 2015
In late November 2006, Nyamuragira Volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, and local scientists feared the lava flows would impact nearby towns. Between the volcano’s activity and the armed civil and interstate conflict that has plagued the region for nearly a decade, however, personal inspection of the location and extent of the lava flows was nearly impossible.
Published Dec 12, 2007
A dense plume of ash and steam rises from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in this photo-like image from May 10, 2010.
Published May 10, 2010
