Gallery | Volcanoes from Space 2 | Verdant volcano in a silvery sea
I love this shot of the south Pacific Tinakula volcano as seen by the Earth Observing-1 satellite. Tinakula is only sporadically active, and EO-1 caught a plume of steam and some ash from a mild eruption from February 2012.
But it's the water that makes this image so odd and lovely. It's actually natural color; the sunlight is glinting off the water, giving it that silver sheen.
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Image credit: NASA/Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon (Earth Observatory)
But it's the water that makes this image so odd and lovely. It's actually natural color; the sunlight is glinting off the water, giving it that silver sheen.
Original image
Blog post
Image credit: NASA/Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon (Earth Observatory)
