NASA MODIS Image of the Day: April 9, 2008 – The Karymsky Volcano
Evidence of earlier activity from the Karymsky Volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula lingered on the landscape in April 2008.
The MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite took the main image on this page on April 7, 2008.
If you move your mouse over the image, you will see the same region on March 29, 2007. In the March image, the pale volcanic ash stain sweeps toward the southwest—a small swath of slightly darker color on the otherwise pristine snowy white landscape. By April, the amount of ash on the snow has increased. Karymsky Volcano is a stratovolcano composed of alternating layers of hardened lava, solidified ash, and rocks ejected by previous eruptions. After some 2,300 years of quiet behavior, the volcano became active about five centuries ago.
