This Sarychev Peak eruption, on Matua Island, in the Kuril Island chain, northeast of Japan, was captured from space.
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The new photo was taken June 12 from the International Space Station. NASA says volcano researchers are excited about the picture "because it captures several phenomena that occur during the earliest stages of an explosive volcanic eruption."
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The main plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam, according to a NASA statement. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance.
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The pictures of the A-bomb blasts from the '50s look like that too.
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The photo also shows a ground-hugging plume of light gray ash, probably a mix of hot gas and ash in what volcanologists call a pyroclastic flow, descending from the volcano summit. Pyroclastic flows — deadly to anything or anyone in their paths — are known to be up to 600 degrees and rush across the land at 130 mph.
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I guess they caught the very beginning of this eruption, which is the first since 1989, for Sarychev Peak.
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