Photo: NASA Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center

This photograph of the erupting Sarychev Volcano was taken June 12 by an astronaut on the International Space Station. Sarychev, on the northwestern end of Matua Island, is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, northeast of Japan. The photo was taken with a Nikon D2XS digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens. More information about the volcanic phenomena seen in this image is at the NASA Earth Observatory.

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This entry was posted on Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 12:00 pm ET by Daryl Lang and is filed under Clouds, Science/Nature.