This detailed image from June 29, 2011, provides a nearly unimpeded view of lava flows at the erupting Nabro volcano in Eritrea.
Published Jul 1, 2011
This pair of satellite images was among the first detailed pictures of the erupting vent and lava flows.
Published Jun 28, 2011
Though the explosive and most visible eruptive activity seems to have subsided, lava is still flowing above and below ground at the largest volcano in the Galapagos Islands.
Published Jun 30, 2015
An ash plume billows above one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes.
Published Feb 23, 2015
The Nicaraguan volcano erupted for the first time in more than a century.
Published Mar 5, 2016
Three days after its surprise eruption on May 2, the Chaitén volcano of southern Chile was still pumping out dense clouds of ash. The plume extended over the Andes Mountains, across Argentina, and hundreds of kilometers over the Atlantic Ocean.
Published May 7, 2008
A NASA satellite spied the eruption plume and the heat signature of lava at the summit.
Published Apr 21, 2010
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
On September 5, 2014, two new fissures opened up near Vatnajökull ice cap in the ongoing eruption at Iceland’s Bárdarbunga volcano.
Published Sep 5, 2014
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