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This image takes us to Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the northern Pacific, typically covered in bright white clouds on satellite.

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English: This image takes us to Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the northern Pacific, typically covered in bright white clouds on satellite. However, on June 22, 2019, the NOAA/NASA Suomi-NPP satellite caught a different type of cloud poking through—the towering brown ash cloud from the eruption of the Raikoke volcano on Kamchatka’s Kuril Islands. This was the first major eruption of Raikoke since 1924 and it shot about 6-8 miles into the atmosphere. NOAA’s JPSS satellites don’t just track the visible ash plumes of volcanoes, they also have an instrument called the Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS), which can track the movement of the sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas released from volcanic eruptions.
Date Taken on 22 June 2019
Source Raikoke Volcano, 2019
Author NOAASatellites
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NOAASatellites at https://flickr.com/photos/125201706@N06/50700003478. It was reviewed on 20 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

20 February 2024

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This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.

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