Well, when it rains it pours in the world of the
- and this week we've been treated to three great images of volcanoes or volcanic landscapes from space. I thought I'd spotlight them and add some of my thoughts of the images.
From Russia:
Two images came from the ever-active Kamchatka Peninsula. The first shows a fairly weak but steady plume from Karymsky on October 8, 2010. The ground is fairly snow-free (being the end of the summer season) so the air that has fallen doesn't stand out as it does on some Kamchatka images, but you can still see some grey on the ground surface around the volcano. If you look at the larger version of the image, you can see a bunch of the volcanoes on the peninsula - starting from the south you can see the snow-covered peaks of Avanchinsky, Koryaksky, then Zhupanovsky, ...
