Plume from Kilauea’s Halema’uma’u Crater

Acquired August 19, 2009, this true-color image shows a ghostly gray-blue plume blowing from the Halema'uma'u Overlook vent on the Kilauea Volcano. While the land surface around the vent is devoid of vegetation, plants apparently thrive to the east.

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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 Team. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published August 21, 2009
Data acquired August 19, 2009

Source:

EO-1 > ALI

Topics:

Land Surface > Landscape > Landscape Pattern

Solid Earth > Volcanoes > Eruption Dynamics

Solid Earth > Volcanoes > Volcanic Ash/Dust