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Column of Ash Rises Over Shiveluch Volcano

earthobservatory.nasa.gov — On Sunday morning, Feb 17, 2008, the skies above Shiveluch Volcano in Russia ’s Far East were clear and calm. When the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead, it caught this view of a column of ash from a recent eruption seemingly frozen in the air over the mountain.

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  • suzywang3000, on 02/22/2008, -11/+1shop. berry!
    • arw371, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1Your wit is only second to your humor.

      berry indeed
  • danielce, on 02/22/2008, -3/+4oooooo.... I want to parachute from here, although I might get bored on the way down... Better bring a book.
  • DrunkenSavior, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5Another impressive photo of the volcano here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiveluch
  • EatingPie, on 02/22/2008, -0/+8This is taken NASA's Terra satellite in LEO (I'm working on the code for processing its cloud mask data as I type this!). If you want to parachute, you better bring a space suit equipped with heat shields. That's how good this satellite is!

    The explanation of the picture can be found at:

    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/archive/20080220. ...

    -Pie
    • influenceuh, on 02/22/2008, -0/+9I'm rerouting main power to the deflector shield!
    • darkane, on 02/22/2008, -3/+2Then get back to work and stop wasting our tax dollars on surfing Digg.
    • Sirckus, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0coding? That's odd? I'm not familiar with your choice of syntax
  • influenceuh, on 02/22/2008, -7/+1Does that remind anyone else of boobs?
  • tikiman453, on 02/22/2008, -1/+2i wanna watch dante's peak.
  • junskey, on 02/22/2008, -7/+1when you enlarge it it looks like a mountain butthole
  • KaJuN4, on 02/22/2008, -7/+3You see??? Cars are causing global warming and destroying our planet!!!!!!!!!!!!1!111 If we ban cars the skies will clear, ice caps will re-freeze, we'll all live longer, and the dodo bird will come back from extinction!!!!!!
    • WoollyMittens, on 02/22/2008, -3/+3And trolls like you will go away.
      • KaJuN4, on 02/22/2008, -2/+3I see global warming has caused someone's sarcasm detector to malfunction. ;-)
    • EatingPie, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Just an FYI.

      Volcanic ash actually does the opposite of global warming. Ash in the atmosphere reflects sunlight away, and does not trap re-radiated energy (heat from the earth itself) like carbon does.

      So if you're implying Volcanos cause global warming because they produce far more emissions than cars, you're wrong.

      -Pie
  • Toshibi, on 02/22/2008, -3/+2If you look at the shadow you can clearly see that it's Satan rising out of hell.

    /sarcasm
  • Drkboarder, on 02/22/2008, -1/+4Ay dios mio...of course people had to mention global warming and Satan. How about we respect nature for it's damn beauty, both destructive and creative (read: Snowball Earth), and go about our business?
    • Oryx, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1ypu didn't know that Satan was behind Global Warming? Or maybe, Global Warming is what made Satan?
      • Wonderama, on 02/22/2008, -1/+0If Satan were a chicken, and global warming was, well warm...would it cook my eggs before they were hatched?
  • lickfire, on 02/22/2008, -3/+0yes the world pulls a moon to NASA and then repeats... "How you like me now, Bitch?"
  • magnus3994, on 02/22/2008, -5/+1lame
  • Totz83, on 02/22/2008, -3/+0It looks pissed off, probably with Scientology
  • xsecretfiles, on 02/22/2008, -4/+1GOATSE!!
  • ChuckIT, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1that can't be good
  • spalVl, on 02/22/2008, -1/+2I see balloon knot

  • skippyrandom, on 02/22/2008, -2/+0I, for some odd reason, only see the statue of liberty (?) in the shadow.
  • lucutus, on 02/22/2008, -2/+3Heh how many carbon credits does the volcano own now?
    • seomike, on 02/22/2008, -1/+1It's a scam.... even nature knows that!
  • osbjmg, on 02/22/2008, -2/+4The gays did it, just like the earthquakes in Israel.
  • SeaofChaos, on 02/22/2008, -5/+2This is obviously because of Global Warming.
  • Wonderama, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0Something has to be done about these volcanic scourges sullying the environment. We need to think of the children.
  • ZephyrNinety, on 02/22/2008, -1/+1World's biggest bong.
  • designerutah, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0What I want to know is, where was the shuttle in relation to this volcanic eruption?

  • direlemming, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1it looks like a one eyed bunny holding a bag to me lol
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