A plume of fine ash from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano stretches more than 100 kilometers across Chile and the Pacific Ocean as the volcano continues erupting after more than five months.
Acquired June 5, 2011, this image shows infrared nighttime observations and an atmospheric profile of the volcanic ash plume from Puyehue-Cordón Caulle in Chile.
Two days of continuous emissions at the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex have created an ash plume the extends more than 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 kilometers).
A plume from the erupting Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano stretches 800 kilometers across the sky, while ash spreads across the ground below on June 13, 2011.