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Explosive Eruption at Paluweh

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2013-04-19 00:00:00
April 19, 2013

Sporadic eruptions from Paluweh Volcano have been sending ash and volcanic gases into the air since late 2012. This natural-color image was acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on April 19, 2013.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.

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