NASA has published a new fantastic photo of the ongoing Holuhraun eruption captured by a satellite. Earlier NASA has published this great archive of the eruption and this brilliant image.
The image above was captured on September 6, 2014 when the much smaller eruption closer to the glacier was still ongoing. It as since died down.
As NASA explains the false-colour image above combine shortwave infrared, near infrared, and green light. Ice and the plume of steam and sulfur dioxide appear cyan and bright blue, while liquid water is navy blue. Bare or rocky ground around the Holuhraun lava field appears in shades of green or brown in this band combination. Fresh lava is bright orange and red.
You can see the same area in natural colour on NASA's Earth Observatory page.
NASA has published a new fantastic photo of the ongoing Holuhraun eruption captured by a satellite. Earlier NASA has published this great archive of the eruption and this brilliant image.
The image above was captured on September 6, 2014 when the much smaller eruption closer to the glacier was still ongoing. It as since died down.
As NASA explains the false-colour image above combine shortwave infrared, near infrared, and green light. Ice and the plume of steam and sulfur dioxide appear cyan and bright blue, while liquid water is navy blue. Bare or rocky ground around the Holuhraun lava field appears in shades of green or brown in this band combination. Fresh lava is bright orange and red.
You can see the same area in natural colour on NASA's Earth Observatory page.
