Chaitén lava domes at the NASA Earth Observatory

Hot on the heels of the last Chaitén image featured by the NASA Earth Observatory comes this close-up view of the Chaitén lava domes, captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on 30 September 2009. In this new image the plume is blowing away to the south, revealing the northern part of the dome complex which was obscured in the earlier image (detail shown below).

[NASA images by Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Thanks to Robert Simmon of the NASA Earth Observatory for referencing this blog in his caption.]

Lava domes, Chaitén volcano – NASA Earth Observatory (2 October 2009)

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