Column of Ash Rises Over Shiveluch Volcano

Posted by Karim Baz

February 23, 2008

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.