Ash and Snow at Shiveluch

An eruption from one of the most active volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula deposited a long trail of ash across the landscape.

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Ash Plume from Shiveluch

Acquired a little less than two hours apart, these images show a volcano before and after it spewed an ash plume on October 6, 2012.

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Ash-covered Snow on Kizimen Volcano

The mountainous landscape around the volcano is covered in a patchwork of snow, ash, and volcanic debris.

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Volcanic Eruptions on the Kamchatkan Peninsula

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Eruptions of Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Sopka

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Kamchatka Volcanoes

Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes send ash plumes above Kamchatka.

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Shiveluch Smokes Once Again

In mid-February 2019, the Kamchatkan volcano lofted ash plumes nearly 6 kilometers into the sky.

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Ash Plume from Batu Tara

Batu Tara erupted ash over 2,000 meters high on March 15, 2010.

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Activity at Shiveluch Volcano

The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s EO-1 satellite acquired this image of Shiveluch Volcano venting gas and ash on September 7, 2010.

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Ash and Snow, Veniamonof Volcano

Satellite images captured the ongoing, low-level eruption of one of the Alaskan Peninsula’s largest volcanoes.

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Eruption of Grímsvötn Volcano, Iceland

Ash from Grímsvötn spread over the North Sea on May 24, 2011, canceling several hundred flights in Scotland and Scandinavia.

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Volcanic Ash on Slopes of Karymsky

Volcanic ash from earlier eruptions has settled onto the snowy landscape, leaving dark gray swaths. The ash stains are confined to the south of the Karymsky’s summit, one large stain fanning out toward the southwest, and another toward the east.

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