Sakura-Jima Volcano

  • Credit

    Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

A smoke plume is seen originating at the summit of the Sakura-Jima volcano in this SeaWiFS image. A vortex street is also visible in the clouds to the south of Cheju, a South Korean island that reaches an elevation of 1950 meters.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    1999-12-07