Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands from space

Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048 was acquired on June 12, 2009, with a Nikon D2XS digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.

Video source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38985

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• space station
• eruption
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[Au197]

I'm 56 years old. I vaguely remember all of the excitement about sputnik (although I certainly didn't understand it). In just my lifetime we've gone from the first soccer ball sized satellite to such images as this. AMAZING.

Thank you to the brave* men and women in space, and to the thousands of scientists and engineers who worked to put them there.

(* I'd go!!!)

[tamorinka]

Pyroclastic flow?　（火砕流）

[hisoj]

science rules