Ash plume from Ambrym Volcano, Vanuatu

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

The Ambrym Volcano was billowing ash and steam on October 4, 2004, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. Located on Ambrym Island in Vanuatu approximately 2,200 kilometers northeast of Australia, the volcano is one of the region’s most active, with regular eruptions nearly every year in recent history. Red dots on top of the volcano indicate that MODIS also detected a thermal anomaly associated with the eruption. This could be hot ash, lava, or fires started by the erupting volcano.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2004-10-05