volcanoes
Astounding Satellite Views of the Puyehue-Cordón Ash Plume
[/caption] An incredible amount of ash is being spewed from the erupting Puyehue-Cordón Volcano Complex in Chile. This image, taken…
Kilauea Volcano, Up Close and Personal
[/caption] Today, NASA's Earth Observatory website featured an image of activity on the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. The image was…
Mount Merapi Still Blowing off Steam
[/caption] For about three weeks, Indonesia's Mount Merapi has been belching out lava, as well as ash and gas, clouding…
How Hot is Lava
[/caption] We all know that the lava is molten rock that is spewed from a volcano. However how hot is…
Extrasolar Volcanoes May Soon be Detectable
[/caption] We’ve all seen pictures of erupting terrestrial volcanoes from space, and even eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io in the…
A Trilogy of Tremendous Volcanoes
[/caption] You like volcanoes? We've got volcanoes! Three recent images from space show some tremendous volcanoes on Earth. This very…
Incredible Images of Iceland Volcano from Just a Few Kilometers Away
[/caption] Astronomer Snaevarr Gudmundsson from Iceland was able to travel to within just a few kilometers from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano,…
Spectacular Footage, Satellite Images of Eyjafjallajokull Volcano in Iceland
A volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupted Wednesday, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing…
Information About Volcanoes
Volcanoes are ruptures or fissures in the earth’s crust which leak lava. Although people think of a typical volcano as…
Mayon Volcano Threatens Major Eruption
[/caption] Mayon Volcano, on the Philippine island of Luzon, has been exhibiting activity suggesting a major eruption is imminent. Described…